Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian Ocean...
...proposes to defend Australia for two reasons: 1) to keep open at least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...
...square miles in area. It lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo-not as far as Australia is from...
...season, which begins next month and lasts until November. The island produces lumber, sugar, coffee, manioc, maize, cacao, vanilla, tobacco. It has some of the world's richest graphite mines. Doubtless the Axis would welcome these trifles in addition to a base dominating the western Indian Ocean...
...political reasons, the U.S. relied for about 15% of its sugar supplies on the Philippines, importing them across 7,000 miles of Pacific Ocean rather than across 200 miles from Cuba. For political reasons, the quotas of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and particularly the quotas of U.S. beet-and cane-sugar producers have been kept high (in relation to their production)-and the quotas of Cuba kept down...