Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began his great work. Almost compulsively, Conrad wrote between watches in his cabin aboard the Torrens, a crack Aus tralian-run clipper. The book was accepted, and he never sailed again...
...PACKARD CLIPPER, out this week in two body styles, will have supercharged 275-h.p. Studebaker engine and automatic transmission as standard equipment. First Packard station wagon since 1950 is listed at $3,093, and four-door sedan...
Like all great ships of the past, from the Greek trireme to the Yankee clipper, the supertanker was launched to meet a specific demand at a specific time. Supertankers have not only kept a vast and constant stream of oil flowing from the Middle East and South America...
...days need only a minimal skill at managing their own finances to become men of means. Though few will become a Joe DiMaggio, the poor fisherman's son who rose to fame, wealth and social prestige, most will merit Professor Gregory's envious comment on the Yankee Clipper: "And the Lorde was with Joseph, and he was a luckie fellowe" (Genesis 39: 2, Tyndale's translation...
...stage (Ziegfeld Follies), nightclubs, radio and TV, wartime U.S.A. favorite whose gallant comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...