Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Naval Science smoker, held for all members of the University taking Naval Science courses, will be given Friday evening at 7 o'clock at the Boston Yacht Club, department officials announced yesterday...
Last week, however, a U. S. relief expedition was being readied. In a Portland (Me.) berth, the 118-ft. yacht Liberty, under Capt. Kenneth Simpson, ordered provisions for a South Sea voyage. At Panama, Liberty planned to pick up Pitcairn's radio equipment, mail, whatever else it could find room for, hoped to sight the islands by Christmas...
...just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded...
...business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...
...knot motor yacht Q. E. D., streamlined startler designed by and built for Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive...