Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ocean City...
...Your article] paints a forbidding picture which is not true of Ocean City or of dozens of other resorts...
...bathing as usual on our beaches, unhampered by oil. No bodies have washed ashore. No lights are extinguished in beach houses (occupants are merely required to lower shades on windows facing the ocean), and cars do not extinguish lights (merely dim them) when driving oceanward. Vacationists are finding the dimout a unique experience, which most of them enjoy...
Only two years ago the two-ocean navy bill authorized 385,000 tons of capital ships (battleships), 200,000 tons of aircraft carriers, big tonnages of cruisers, destroyers, submarines. Then U.S. citizens proudly learned that the Navy would some day have have of the biggest ships afloat-fast, 60,000-ton super-dreadnoughts...
...tonners, still in the blueprint stage, are going to stay thereat least for a long time. Their steel is to go for carriers, 500,000 tons of them. Also provided for are 500,000 tons of cruisers, 900.000 tons of smaller ships. Total cost of the five-ocean addition...