Word: globe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this announcement was encouraging to local globe-trotters, the three ships, the Marine Tiger, Marine Flasher and Marine Shark will not be able to carry even half of the 9000 students who hope to travel on them...
...first half of the soth Century, fanned by the crimson wings of war, the conquest of the air affected profoundly human affairs. It made the globe seem much bigger to the mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily...
...uncovered, two-story stage like Sir Laurence Olivier's version of the Globe in Henry V (but without Olivier's broadly stylized interpretation), The Masquers' performance gave fresh point to Shakespearean conventions demanded by a theater without scenery or a curtain: the numerous exits & entrances, the corpse-bearing processions, the scene-setting dialogue...
Time & Money. With his new Boeings, Trippe hopes to revolutionize air travel, just as the Stratocruiser's older brother, the 6-29, rewrote the book on strategic bombing. Trippe wants to open the way to globe-trotting to millions...
...Horse. The day after Pearl Harbor, this air service became a prime military asset to the U.S. as a means of quick transport across the oceans. On the routes which Trippe had first plotted with a piece of string on the globe in his office, the armed forces built their huge transport service. Drafted by the Army & Navy as a contract carrier, Pan Am ferried high brass, spies, planes and war materials into Africa, Europe and Asia, and built 53 airports. Its payroll swelled from 4)395 to 88,000 and its Lisbon base for a time was the only...