Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...
...Fish was angry. He spoke his mind. From the U. S. boat came a voice: "You're damned lucky we didn't turn the machine gun on you." Later Mr. Fish learned that the patrol boat was part of the U. S. Customs Enforcement Service (not Coast Guard). Mr. Fish filed a protest at Washington against the boarding, the swaggering display of firearms, the "threatening and profane" language before Mrs. Fish and the boys. With yachtsmen fuming, pleasure-boat builders professed belief that the Government was threatening their business. President William Hartman Woodin of American Car and Foundry...
...performance of duty . . . the Coast Guard must stop, board and examine vessels. Because yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention...
...Remember that, should your boat need assistance, the entire available resources of the Coast Guard are yours for the asking...