Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ships to Race. The time is the turn of the century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard...
Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...
...first agreement is commercial: Austria and Communist Hungary will exchange passengers, and freight on the Danube. Austrian ships will be permitted to sail through Hungary and to the Black Sea; Hungarian ships may pass upriver through Austria to trade with Germany...
...result of its victory on the Charles, the team will sail in the National Championships at Kings Point, N.Y. in June. The Crimson took the national title last year...
...Brown will skipper in the "B" division with David Robbins as crew. George Robertson and Nick Baker Sail in the "C" class. The race was originality scheduled for April 20 but was postponed until today...