Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus' eastward and westward voyages and find out how good a navigator Columbus...
...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...
Production. The Federal Reserve Board last week released its production index for July: 102, up from 98 for June. This rise (which represented not an increase in production but the fact that most business did not decline as usual in July-for the index is seasonally adjusted) reflected in part unusually early machinery, parts and materials production for the 1940 auto models (on show already...
...international shortwave radio broadcasting, put it on a commercial footing, by empowering it to sell air time to advertisers. This was the order that raised such a ruckus because of a censorious-sounding rider clause cautioning broadcasters that international programs must be designed to promote international good will. That part of the FCC order has since been suspended, pending hearings on it. But the official changeover of the stations themselves to commercial operating bases was last week in full swing...