Word: finks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lehn & Fink...
...international championship for star boats-slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack...
...When Fink skimmed home first in the fourth race, the Coast Guard cutters and yachts along the finish line greeted him with an uproar of foghorns and whistles but it still looked as though the eleven points the committee had taken away from him would cost him his title. Starting the fifth and last race. Glenn Waterhouse of San Francisco had 51 points and Fink would have to finish four places ahead of his Three Star Two and two places ahead of Edwin Thome's Mist to win. Still em- broiled with the committee. Fink was ordered to haul...
...Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark on the 10½-mi. course...
...Manufacturers National, had already been raised. Only one thing was still needed: a charter from the Comptroller of the Currency. John Ballantyne, one-time chairman of the First National, was selected as president. The board of directors included Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., George R. Fink, president of National Steel (maker of much automobile steel), Murray W. Sales, Wesson Seyburn, Clifford B. Longley (Ford attorney) and Edsel Ford. Many a time in the past has Henry Ford, dissatisfied with purchasing this material or that, undertaken to manufacture it himself. Often has he expressed his dissatisfaction with bankers...