Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor's wife was giving a fancy-dress ball, and she decided that the invitations should go out bearing the latest thing-postage stamps. The year was 1847, and stamps had just been authorized for the Indian Ocean colony of Mauritius, which her husband administered. So she asked that old, half-blind Mr. Barnard, the island's watchmaker, jeweler and amateur engraver, finish the island's first stamps as soon as possible...
...took his icy hand, "Isn't God upon the ocean...
Compelling Reasons. Why is the U.S. going to all the expense and bother involved instead of just shooting the missiles into the ocean? For one thing, land shots make for much more precise measurements of impact areas than do missile shoots into the ocean. For an other, sending a few Jeeps into the desert to pick up the pieces of an impacted missile is a whale of a lot cheaper than sending a flotilla of Navy cruisers all over the Atlantic or Pacific to look for a rocket launched from Vandenberg or Canaveral. And finally, White Sands has more monitoring...
...transformed business methods and the trading stamps that have conquered the housewife. Litton makes guidance systems that fly planes virtually without human help, devices that generate light beams to burn holes in thick steel plates and gyroscopes that smooth the sickening roll of a Queen Elizabeth caught in an ocean storm...
...Ingalls has five contracts worth $145 million to build the Navy's new nuclear-powered attack submarines, which may be the destroyers of the future. Litton's Western Geophysical Co., with its fleet of 20 ships, is the world's largest explorer of the ocean depths for minerals. It is currently searching the oceans for the best site for Project Mohole, a much-delayed attempt to bore deeper than ever before into the earth's crust; Western won the contract to test at four sites after other companies made an initial boring off Lower California...