Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caribbean tramp was T. E. L. Morro Castle. The last word in mechanical modernity, her propulsion was of the most expensive sort: oil-burning boilers drove steam turbines to power the motors which turned her screws. She was built at Newport News, Va. in 1930 for $5,500.000. Against fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system...
Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down to the serious work of defeating Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and sailed by that fine old salt, onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup contender Rainbow: a 30-mi. race against Frederick Henry Prince's Weetamoe; in light winds, off Newport. After the race, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee announced that Weetamoe had been eliminated as a possible defender, waited to see what Yankee, winner of most of the trials, could do against Rainbow in a stiff breeze before making a final selection...
...Sept. 15, two tall-masted sloops slanting across the line off Newport, R. I., will mark the start of the most expensive sports event in the world?the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races...
...these 14 he had invested $35,000,000, principally in Guaranty Trust Co. ($6,918,000), Western Union ($4,456,000), Standard Oil of New Jersey ($3,590,000), National Cash Register ($2,762,000). Standard Oil of California ($2,530,000). Miscellaneous holdings : one share of Newport Reading Room common ($400) ; one share of Pocahontas Following Club...