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John is a lawyer and Ray a sea-captain and Paulette doesn't know which she prefers, so she lets a giant squid decide for her in a climactic undersea-fight to end all undersea fights. The music gets much more frantic at this point, but it hardly matters since we know that Wayne, having sinned, must perish...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

...undersea cable somewhere west of Midway Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...fire on his ships? Smile benignly on us, say "danke schoen" and turn back to his knackwurst? If we're going to shoot, so's he; two can play at that game. He has nothing at all to gain from letting American ships loaded with supplies pass by his undersea blockade unharmed. America is unneutral already; sinking our merchant marine won't make us any more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Submarines and Sanity | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

...beautiful Rabaul occupies a terrible perch on the rim of a great undersea volcano. Out of this harbor rise volcanic islands, one sinister cone called Matupi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: King Move Um Capital | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...incident: the Greer was unmistakably a U.S. ship, was attacked by the Nazi submarine in waters declared by the U.S. to be "waters of self-defense." The at tack, he said, was either a deliberate Nazi attempt to sink a U.S. warship, or "even more outrageous," an attack from undersea on an unidentified surface boat, indicating a policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas in order to control and dominate the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You Shall Go No Further | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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