Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell us something [Jan. 26]. Of course. Our environment has run so amuck that it is at least possible that the crazed herds of whales might have found the seas too foul to endure any longer and beached themselves as a dramatic way of showing mankind what the ocean's creatures think of his detergent and pesticide-filled rivers, his raw or half-processed sewage, and his oil slicks...
...Mongol Reds crossed the Atlantic in their great dirigibles. The Navy, America's first line of defense, was annihilated. The disintegrator beams bit deeply into the ocean, causing it to swirl and boil. Both ships and aerplanes were completely destroyed as the ray touched them. The Army made brave but futile resistance as the Mongolian aircraft swept across the country. Washington, D. C. was wiped out of existence in 3 hours by the terrible rays which cut the very foundations from under its magnificent buildings, . . . It was the death of a nation...
...example, about 70% of the earth's oxygen is produced by ocean phytoplankton?passively floating plants and animals. This entire living system modified temperatures, curbed floods and nurtured man about 5,000,000 years ago. Only if the biosphere survives can man survive...
...joined with the Federal Government to form the Delaware River Basin Commission. They have enlisted the cooperation of nearly 100 firms and municipalities, including Du Pont, Rohm & Haas and Sun Oil, in a $500 million effort to clean up an 85-mile stretch of the Delaware estuary between the ocean and Trenton...
...vacationers from such cities as Boston, Chicago and Detroit to the Caribbean rather than making them transfer to other lines at coastal airports. The addition of Trans Caribbean would also make American, which hopes to begin flights to Hawaii and the South Pacific this year, a two-ocean airline...