Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen agencies were told by the White House to take a reef in federal public-works programs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was busy looking for a way to spell "Brannan Plan" backwards. After two years of campaigning to give farmers permanent high incomes, he was under White House orders to work out a scheme for keeping food prices from going any higher...
...record 65 sailing vessels are entered in the 635 mile run from the Brenton Reef Light-vessel to St. David's Head, according to the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Club, co-sponsors of the race...
...yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...