Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belle and his blondined second wife took a terraced apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, bought a cabin cruiser, joined the Fluminense Club and the Yacht Club (membership fee: $2,000). Through a front man. Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin village where Lincoln lived as a young...
...four floors were 430 boats, from a 6 ft. 10 in. dinghy to the big craft of the show, Richardson's ten-bunk motor yacht, 46 ft. long and $46,000 high. For the carnage trade there were still costlier craft, including Matthews' 42-ft., double-cabin cruiser at $53,000, and Wheeler's 43-ft., flying-bridge sedan at $55,000. But, more than ever, boat builders emphasized economy to lure more middle-income families, made wider use of low-cost, low-upkeep plastics and fiber glass. The percentage of fiberglass craft in the show...
More Power. Some of the show's best buys and fanciest eye-catchers came from Europe. Britain's Silhouette Marine, Ltd. exhibited the smallest cruising sailboat, the 17-ft. Silhouette Mark II, which sleeps two in an enclosed cabin. Price: $1,987. The French, taking part in the show for the first time, displayed sailboats ranging from the 13½-ft. Vaurien at $495 to the 18-ft. Corsaire at $1,975. West Germany also made its first invasion, enticed the outboard set with the 19-ft. Graves Hummel cruiser. It sleeps five, weighs only 620 lbs., speeds...
...nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must be instantly detachable and must have some sort of propulsion as well as a quick-opening parachute to bring it softly to earth...