Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People who think better of her remember: 1) That in her trials in England she was far faster than all reasonable estimates of her speed based on her measurements. She beat famed Candida, a boat with five tons less displacement and 800 square feet more sail. 2) She can stand up in a wind and is wonderfully fast in light airs. One day at Newport when the U. S. contestants, holding an elimination trial, lay becalmed, she ghosted through them all as though she had an engine...
Obviously the canny Scot was testing public sentiment with a trial balloon, but he let it be said that he now favors enactment of a blanket 8% tariff on all imports, even foodstuffs and antiques...
...whale boats interested Los Angeles last week, but tuna-fishing boats worth $250,000 were prepared for trial runs, and contracts calling for another $250,000 worth were signed. Plans were likewise drawn up for a super-tuna boat, to cost approximately $200,000. It will contain freezing compartments capable of holding 600 tons of frozen tuna; the boat will be able to cruise tropical waters for two months at a stretch...
Last week the trial board reconstructed the disaster from the evidence, acquitted Captain Brooks of all four charges. It concluded that the Fairfax was traveling at 3 knots, the Pinthis at 7½ when they collided, that nobody heard any fog signals from the Pinthis, that Captain Brooks handled his helm and engines correctly. Declared the board: "Had the master executed any other maneuver than what he did, both vessels would have been sunk and possibly all lives lost...
...gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving his ten-month sentence, Merchant Siegel married a third wife (the Western Union girl of Geneseo, N. Y. where his trial was held), obtained financial backing, made three heartbreaking attempts to come back. In 1922 he started his last venture, a small haberdashery store in Hackensack, N. J. Ill health prevented him from continuing it and he retired to Lakewood, the St. Helena of many an ailing man, severed from...