Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women fliers of which Mrs. Gillies is head, was Private Fliers Association Counsel Hav en B. Page (father of three). Mr. Page brandished five obstetricians' opinions on the flying competence of pregnant women.One physician maintained that women are completely capable during 90% of their pregnancy, successfully drive cars, sail boats, etc. Thin, emaciated women, vowed another expert, would be much better pilots if they were four months pregnant. Said he, it makes them feel better ; the attitude of "we males" is largely superstition...
...Among this group were only the German and Austrian Jews from the Virgilio. After the hearing we were told that we were free and could continue our journey with our wives. Rear Admiral Muselier, Commander of Marseille, personally came over to our truck and assured us that we could sail soon and that our papers and money would be returned to us. In the meantime, however, we had to return to the concentration camp to await further orders. On Oct. 15 the Admiral appeared before us again with his staff to assure us once more of our early departure. Finally...
...Last week Florida was harvesting its biggest crop of tourists. In limousines and trailers, by airline and boat and railway (at lowest fares ever), they spread through all the long reach from Jacksonville on the north to Key West in the south (see map). They went to fish for sail, marlin, tarpon on both coasts; to peer at fish on display at Marineland and Silver Springs; to watch their favorite ballplayers at Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota; to hear the Bok Carillon at Lake Wales; to see Seminoles and alligators and flamingos and orange trees; to have...
...night before sighting land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
This week, to get for themselves the most perennially interesting and important news in the world, meteorologists from the U. S. Weather Bureau got ready, to sail on two 2,000-ton Coast Guard cutters, Duane and Bibbo, to permanent weather outposts on the Atlantic. At points one-third and two-thirds of the way between Bermuda and the Azores they will station, send up balloons with instruments to measure pressure, humidity and temperature, keep a constant, weather-wise eye on the sea, wireless their reports back to Washington...