Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passion and Resurrection. When, under cover of wartime secrecy, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, slipped across the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. (it was his first visit), there was no Protestant churchman who could have impressed Americans more. For the Archbishop was a symbol of one great Protestant church which, under the impact of war, had suffered a passion and predicated a resurrection...
...Landing Ship, Tank), a 328-ft., ocean-going ship with a tank ramp...
...established overseas service (to Foynes, Ireland for Navy Air Transport) and "grandfather rights" on applications for transatlantic routes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. The deal enabled American Export Lines Inc. to dispose of its control of Amex-which it had to do, under the CAB ruling that ocean carriers are not permitted to operate air routes. But Export Steamship will retain 24% of the airline stock, will probably act as the airline's agents abroad...
...navigator. Besides his two double-volume histories of the United States, one done with Henry Steele Commager and his five-volume "Tercentennial History of Harvard University," the sometime professor of American history at Oxford has written "The Maritime History of Massachusetts" and his Pulitzer-prize winning "Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus" is the most popular book on the subject...
...travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior" by his friend, Franklin Roosevelt, Morison is the leading authority on the discoverer of America...