Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
...Lighter craft of the Italian. Turkish and British Navies played hide & seek among the islands of the Aegean. And in London the Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean was closed to British merchant ships-they should forsake the strait at Gibraltar and go the long way to the Orient round Cape of Good Hope...
...whose troubles are their own, did not expect either of these events immediately to help or hurt them much. For Britain, which can at any time add the better part of Norway's fleet of 272 tankers to her own, can haul its Near East oil around the Cape of Good Hope, and is not likely to spend precious foreign exchange buying U. S. oil until she has to. And while Sinclair's deal is for 20,000,000-30,000,000 bbl. of Mexican oil, his Consolidated Oil Corp. will take it out of Mexico...
...effect: the President undressing for bed, tossing remarks over his shoulder to Berle in the next room; Hull and Welles in an early-morning call at the White House, the President propped against pillows, amid a litter of breakfast tray, morning papers, cables from abroad, wearing "a peculiar small cape of blue flannel trimmed and monogrammed with red braid, like an expensive summer horse-blanket...
...film includes pictures of fishing in the Gulf Stream, close-up views of a school of dolphin, and shots of a squall off the Cuban coast, Habana Harbor, a race with a Cuban schooner, and a gale off Cape Hatteras. It is designed to give some conception of life aboard a small sailing ship during an extended voyage...