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...discovered that nearly all writers about Columbus were scholars ignorant of navigation, that they disagreed about whether he was history's greatest navigator or a landlubber. The professor went to the West Indies, sailed among the Lesser Antilles in a yawl, checking up on the western end of Columbus' second voyage. Last .year Professor Morison retraced part of Columbus' first voyage in a ten-day cruise around Haiti, claimed to have found the site of Navidad, first European settlement in the New World...
After retracing part of Columbus' first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go to Honduras to pick up his fourth voyage. They expect to end their expedition in Haiti, February...
Before the week's end it appeared that even Wendell Willkie was convinced the TVA war was over, that there was still Lebensraum for Commonwealth & Southern's operating chain in ten States. Its Alabama Power Co. announced a project which Wendell Willkie would never have dared to try while the TVA fight was on: a $4,000,000 steam power plant in Mobile. At the same time C. & S. announced that $12,000,000 more would be spent later in plant expansions in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. A day later came another proof that Dave Lilienthal...
Three old men of the prairie bestride the back of U. S. agricultural economy: Corn, Wheat and Cotton. Of these the most corpulent is Cotton. At the end of the cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...
...Caroline quickly died. "For years afterwards the mere mention of her name brought tears to his eyes. . . . 'Shall we meet?' he would be heard murmuring to himself, 'Shall we meet in another world?' " To the future Prime Minister, Caroline's death seemed like the end of the world...