Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Watch exasperatingly keeps promising that McFee will soon swallow the anchor and embark on his great American adventure. Yet just as he finally does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...
Three days later the Government, through Shipping Controller Captain E. S. Brand of the Royal Canadian Navy, began to operate 100-odd ships belonging to 29 companies. The Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Navigation Co., which signed with the Seamen's union, will still sail its own ships. The Government was operating only freighters, leaving the passenger lines, which normally do a big business with U.S. tourists, at the docks. While Captain Brand runs his ships a Government-appointed Commissioner will mediate the dispute itself...
...Navigator. He likes to play the fiddle (favorite composers: Bach, Mozart), and to sail a boat. In sailing, his system is to set the sail, make it fast, and with no thought of velocity or energy, loll back while the boat drifts. He smokes a pipe, but never drinks...
Atom-powered ships might sail a million miles on a single fuel charge of uranium or plutonium; the prospect was most promising, said General Electric's Vice President Harry A. Winne last week. But atomic power for public utilities, he thought, was not quite so promising. To compete with soft coal at $4 a ton, "fissionable material" would have to sell at $6,000 a pound...
Bottoms Up. In Buffalo, George and Allen Filsinger took four months to build a boat, launched it, hoisted sail, promptly capsized. They had forgotten the keel...