Word: curlew
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...Structures. His friend Abraham Rosenberg works for Manhattan Terazzo Brass Co. They go sailing at the Bronxonia Yacht Club, at Throg's Neck, N. Y. Last winter Nat Blum and Abraham Rosenberg wondered why they should not borrow their friend David Rosenstein's 49-foot ketch, the Curlew, and enter the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton. Cruising Club officials, examining the. boats for seaworthiness, paid special attention to the Curlew but finally decided it would pass. Last fortnight, along with 26 other...
Four days later, all the other boats in the race had been accounted for but no one had seen the Curlew. A Bermuda tug, the Sandboy, made a 70 mile search around Bermuda, found nothing. The U. S. Consul at Bermuda asked the U. S. Coast Guard to start a search. Seven Coast Guard cutters scoured the Atlantic from Montauk to Bermuda. Irving Blum, brother of Nat Blum, and David Rosenstein grew worried. They persuaded New York's Congressman Fiorello La Guardia to have naval tugboats join the hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval...
...drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing Bermuda fisherman Spanish Rose and the ketch Curlew, manned by six Brooklynites...
...tule goose, a large relative of the white-fronted goose, which winters in California; eggs of the greater snow goose, which nests in northern Greenland (fledglings have been found); breeding grounds of the Ross goose (it has nested in captivity in Holland); nest & eggs of the bristle-thighed curlew which breeds somewhere in Alaska's interior...
...island of Madeira for the past month that elderly British ladies continued to totter round the gardens of resort hotels, to slide along the cobblestoned streets of Funchal in steel-runnered sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...