Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine's northeastern tip late next afternoon Yachtsman Roosevelt suddenly changed his northerly course, struck eastward across the choppy waters of the Bay of Fundy on the longest open-water sail he had taken since boyhood. Thirty hours later he had covered 125 miles, dropped anchor off Cape Sable on Nova Scotia's southern tip. As the flotilla headed north next day the President's prayer for fog was answered (TIME, July 20), but it was not heavy enough to let him escape the stream of dispatches convoyed from the Hopkins at every stop. Off the tiny...
...Over last week on the Pacific was the eleventh running of the second most popular ocean yacht race in the world, the 2,300-mile sail from California to Honolulu. Surpassed in numbers only by the famed Bermuda races, the Honolulu event was inaugurated in the same year...
...several years before that a Honolulu resident named Clarence W. MacFarlane had tried to drum up interest in such a race. He found yachtsmen eager to sail ''down" to Honolulu, but fearful of sailing back "up" to California against the prevailing Trade Winds. MacFarlane set out in his 48-ft. schooner La Paloma to prove that this was no great problem. Arriving safely at San Francisco on April 19, 1906, he was irked because there was no reception committee. Finally he spied a friend. "Hello, Mac," said the San Franciscan, "Isn't this terrible...
Last month in Copenhagen, a newshawk cornered Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
...altitude of 6,516 ft., beating the U. S. record set by Richard du Pont in 1934. Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion, who was last week appointed chairman of a committee to arrange an international meet at Elmira...