Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...
Electrolux Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren, whose yacht Southern Cross rescued 399 Athenians (TIME, Sept. 11), added to the picture in his story for a Swedish newspaper: "The rooms, hallways and decks were crowded with hundreds of half-naked people. Many had been lying in bed, seasick . . . had to rush out on deck undressed. Many of the survivors were drenched with oil from the Athenians oil tanks which were shattered by the explosion...
...George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service...
...research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
...name in the U. S. maritime tradition is America. During the War of 1812 the privateer America took more than $1,000,000 in spoils from British ships. In 1851 the sailing yacht America set a new New York-Le Havre record of 20 days, 5 hours...