Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly the most hazardous, certainly the least comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade...
...Foundation of the Hammer fortune was laid by Armand Hammer's father who made a great deal of money after the War selling medical supplies to the Soviets. Armand Hammer manufactured lead pencils in Moscow, traded U. S. wheat for furs and caviar, carried on a thriving business in Russia until 1930. Three years later, in Manhattan, he began buying air-dried white oak Russian staves for U. S. beer barrels. Because it is almost impossible to get actual money out of Russia, Concessionaire Hammer made an arrangement with the Soviet authorities to take his profits...
...help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became one of the biggest U. S. caviar importing companies, married A. & P. Heiress Josephine Hartford ("Jo") O'Donnell...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
...least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...