Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trim queen of modern U.S. racing yachts, Bolero, a 73½ft. yawl seldom out of first place in her class, was sold by the New York Yacht Club's former commodore, salty Multimillionaire John Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
...green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...Defamation League, hastily formed only a few days before, assembled in the spacious (definitely not split-level) dwelling belonging to an account executive of one of the larger New York advertising agencies. Clutching an unaccustomed cup of coffee, and reclining in a canvas chair that sagged gracefully beneath his trim figure, the host and chairman began...
...FREIGHT BATTLE between American Airlines, Slick Airways and Flying Tigers is cutting transcontinental flying time. Flying Tigers, which recently bought ten Lockheed Super Constellations (TIME, Oct. 3) to match a purchase of five by Slick, will trim its east-to-west schedules to clip nearly three hours off coast-to-coast freight runs. New York manufacturers will be able to ship cargo as late as midnight, have it on West Coast store shelves before opening time next morning...
This Moore-McCormack deal follows a similar one with American President Lines (TIME. Jan. 17), which called for 19 ships at a cost of $175 million. By these deals, the Maritime Board hopes to keep the U.S. merchant fleet in trim and prop up employment in U.S. shipyards...