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On the fifth of October in 1927 two men met for lunch at the Hotel del Prado in Chicago. As they conversed in the quiet tones of men of affairs—alluding to possibilities, deferring to their absent associates who would have to be consulted before decisions could be made, the nearest ocean lay more than a thousand miles away. Yet their conversation centered on that three-quarters of the earth’s surface that was least known, as the two men considered how the United States of America, untouched by the devastation of World War I and enjoying unparalleled prosperity, should contribute to increasing the world’s stock of knowledge about the ocean.
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Burstyn, H.L. (1980). Reviving American Oceanography: Frank Lillie, Wickliffe Rose, and the Founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In: Sears, M., Merriman, D. (eds) Oceanography: The Past. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0_7
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