Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph C. Furnas--Writer, free lance. Has published in Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Look, The Ladies' Home Journal, and others. Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. "Voyage to Windward...
...former Ethel Forde Hillyer, were brought up as Episcopalians. Their two sons, who are also lawyers, are married, have children of their own, and in summer live in houses on the 56-acre family country place at Westhampton, L.I. Until 1938, the Westhampton place was known as "To Windward." After the hurricane of that year, the place was re-christened "Still to Windward." The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings. It is a family playground, now less elaborately...
...Windward Anchor. In Jersey City, as part of its series of lectures on "Job Opportunities in Business Today," the Jersey City Junior College scheduled a talk which included instructions on how to collect unemployment insurance...
Despite the pickup, K-F thought it had better have an anchor to windward. Last week Chairman Henry J. Kaiser asked the stockholders to authorize the company to go into the shipbuilding business. Kaiser, who made his reputation as a World War II shipbuilder operating seven Government-owned shipyards, now operates none. But with talk of a big new Government program (see Shipping), World War II's top shipbuilder thought that he could put his know-how to use developing a profitable sideline...