Word: magellan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...Tristan da Cunha. 2. The Galapagos Islands. 3. The Falkland Islands. 4. The Straits of Magellan. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...
Easy Does It. Many a citizen, geared to the automotive age, found this enthusiasm a little unreal. Slick Goodlin seemed oddly like a man begging to be shot out of a cannon. But Slick didn't think so. Like Columbus, Magellan and the Wright brothers, he was just doing what came naturally. He had been flying almost continuously for seven years, first by dint of washing planes at an airport near his grandfather's Greensburg, Pa. farm, then as a flying officer in the R.C.A.F., then as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and finally as a member...
...latter-day Magellan could still be "the first to burst into that silent sea." No atomic-age Hernando Cortés would pose as a god to a modern Montezuma. Geographically, the world had been pretty well raked over. The only sizable blanks remaining were near the Poles, and they were mostly wastes of ice & snow...