Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...south of Brazil, where an estimated million people of German descent live, he had set about laying the foundation for an effective fifth-column force. Though he did not have the full equipment his fictional colleague enjoys, he organized "shooting clubs" in nearly every good-sized town, used yacht clubs, youth organizations, possibly even a glider school as other fronts. Given time, some Brazilians thought, he might have raised a force of several hundred thousand...
Help! Before she became a Coast Guard Reserve boat, the 3070 was the yacht Zaida, property of the famed yacht sailmaker, George E. Ratsey (who died in New Rochelle after a long illness last week). She is a sleek, 58-ft. yawl, built for racing. Since October she had been in the Coast Guard's offshore patrol, hunting subs. Skipper Curtis Arnall in civilian life was a radio actor and well-known yachtsman; his mate, 33-year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none...
...thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe. President Harding was enroute there when he died in San Francisco. Winston Churchill fished for marlin off the island in 1929. Aboard his yacht, Errol Flynn allegedly was host to 15-year-old Peggy Satterlee, sailing from Catalina to San Pedro...
Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club Chicago...