Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itinerary for the Sophomore cruise, which will last approximately eight weeks, covers most of the major Caribbean ports. Setting sail from Annapolis on June 21, the task force will travel south to Colon, Canal Zone, where it will arrive July...
Opposing the yachtsmen Sunday will be teams from Bowdoin, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Middlebury. As in all its meets on the Charles, the Yacht Club will sail in dinghles borrowed from M.I.T., as the Club lacks funds to outfit its own fleet...
...week on the John Ericsson, formerly the Swedish liner Kungsholm. For three hours, fire engines and boats fought the flames while clouds of yellowish smoke billowed over the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, tied up at the same pier and engaged in loading 2,200 passengers for her scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With damage estimated at more than $500,000, Maritime officials doubted that she would ever sail again under the U.S. flag...
Cooks & Canned Music. Ships are the problem-not passengers. Of the fleet of seven new cruise ships which the Navy took over during the war, the Government-controlled but privately operated line has so far gotten back only two: the President Monroe, which will sail on the first postwar pleasure cruise, and the President Polk, which will sail on May 2. Each has accommodations-all first class-for only 98 passengers. So tickets are being rationed to one person or one couple from each state per ship...
...several other novels (Spella Ho, Fair Stood the Wind for France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness...