Word: moorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crocodile anything red and biteable is edible meat. Consequently, when Imperial Airways Ltd. began installing big, red, rubber buoys at stations in the Sudan and British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...
...wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about God by Christmas...
...rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his Gannochy Moor for guests. Active U. S. shooters included William Woodward, who leased one of the best moors at Clova, and Edmund P. Rogers, who paid $15,000 for the season rights to the moors of both Stobo Castle and Leithen Castle...
Since it is hard to shoot grouse without encroaching on one of the 800 private highland moors, renting them to individuals and syndicates is a big business. Rent is usually computed on the estimated yield at $5 a brace. A moor will cost from $1,000 to $35,000 for the six-week season...
Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...