Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then sailed south to San Pedro, whence the first race finally started in June. Since then the race has always been smooth and comfortable, quite unlike similar ones on the Atlantic. It has never taken any lives, caused any wrecks. Fastest passage was made in 1923 when the 107-ft. schooner Mariner sailed from Santa Barbara to Honolulu in u days, 14 hr., 46 min. Last race, in 1934, was won by the 60-ft. schooner Mariner owned and sailed by Honolulu's Harold G. Dillingham, commodore of the Transpacific Yacht Club...
...history, jockeyed for position behind the starting line at Santa Monica, Dillingham's Manuiwa was the favorite. But to the small coterie of yachtsmen who knew the history of ocean racing, one boat was vastly more interesting than any of the others. She was the slim, 53-ft. yawl Dorade, winner of one transatlantic, two Fastnet races, generally regarded on the Atlantic as the finest ocean racer ever built. Brought to the Pacific especially for last week's race, she cost her new owner, James Leary Flood, some...
...hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
...huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
Head of this rich, state-protected bureaucracy since its inception has been a shambling, pugnacious, 6-ft. 4-in. Scot named John Charles Walsham Reith. Knighted in 1927, Sir John is monarch of all he surveys in Broadcasting House, the big white B. B. C. building which dominates Portland Place and, in the interests of acoustics, is sealed like a tomb and ventilated like a submarine. So obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that...