Word: magellan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Ohio and western Pennsylvania, the Ferdinand Magellan rolled through the stilled heart of U.S. industry, silenced by the coal and steel strikes. Mile on mile, freight cars stood empty on sidings, smokeless chimneys reared against the slaty sky. Truman slipped...
...occasion was a trip to St. Paul for the 100th anniversary of Minnesota as a territory. Truman ordered the presidential train hitched up, happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...Lisbon's small and elegant Hotel Aviz, where most globe-trotters halt for a quick refresher, one wall is covered with the exploits of Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan and other great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
...relationships between four basic values. Then, says Gamow: "We will be able to say that physical science has reached its end . . . and that all that remains is ... minor details . . . and adoration of the completed system. At that stage, physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National Geographic Magazine...
...aboard had been told by their offices to keep it brief. The total daily file off the train was down to 75,000 words, only half the "copy drop" from Tom Dewey's train. Between stops, the reporters never visited Mr. Truman in his armored car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He had not wandered up their way since an earlier trip, when a LIFE photographer had snapped him by surprise as he looked in on a poker game...