Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blustery storm out of the South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...
Enraged and embittered, the Patinos left Bolivia in 1924, from that time on directed the empire from their Paris mansion, Nice chateau, villa at Biarritz or their yacht...
Steel Builder. If the day of the poor man's yacht had not quite arrived, Steel-craft's Jack Churchward, 54, was doing his best to make it dawn. Ever since he graduated from Princeton, Jack Churchward has tinkered with welding processes. His inventions made money but his ambition was to become the Henry Ford of pleasure boats...
...million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
...turned his yacht over to the Mexican navy (then at war), but he opened a de luxe delicatessen with the delicacies from its commissary. To provide employment for the staff of his Mexican Electrolux branch, he set up a factory to make silverware, which was sold from door to door...