Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle 19th Century softwood clipper ships raced with light cargoes from Australia and China to Europe, riding high, running dry, sailed by full crews of crack sailors, by masters who drove their ships under full sail all the way.∙ They carried tea and gold in a hurry. Last of the cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet...
...graduation of his son John at Groton School in early June, receive an honorary degree at Rutgers later. Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis he would steam up the coast from Philadelphia probably as far as Marblehead. There he and his sons would board the Amberjack II and sail themselves up to the Roosevelt summer home in New Brunswick. After a few weeks there the President would return to Hyde Park for the balance of the summer. ¶ The rafters of the Washington Auditorium rang with applause one night last week as President Roosevelt appeared to address the U. S. Chamber...
...ordered by the President for all government employes. She will supervise all three U. S. mints, seven assay offices, issue a quarterly estimate for the Customs Service of the value of foreign coins. The man whom she relieves, Robert J. Grant, had held the job since 1923. He will sail for Shanghai, become mint adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government...
...Union Committee announces that Captain Warwick M. Tompkins, of the schooner "Wanderbird," now docked in the Charles Basin, will speak in the downstairs common room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock on Thursday. He will speak on his "Mediterranean Cruise under Sail...
...lecture will deal with a 13,000 mile cruise from New London to Corsica and back by way of the West Indies. The "Wanderbird" is the largest yacht in the world to have only sail-power. It is 54 years...