Thus that first historic sentence— the one that is usually quoted from the speech— was born: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941— a date which will live in infamy— the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
ocean liner were the primary mode of intercontinental travel fot over a century from the mid-19th century until they began to be supplanted by air liner in 1950's
