Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square-rigged yacht, Sea Cloud, which bugged the eyes of Leningrad. To be secure from hunger Ambassador and Mrs. Davies took with them 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of frozen cream...
...Huckins Yacht Corp. yards in Jacksonville, Fla., Huck went to work. He locked himself in his laboratory, neglected his family, cut his friends, put in 100 hours a week over a drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them...
...tubes and has a stern gangway for depth charges. The three engines pack enough power to run away from destroyers (i.e., 45 knots or more) except in rough weather. Since such boats have little offensive value unless used in large flotillas, the Navy may decide to put little Huckins Yacht Corp. (normal gross: less than $500,000 a year) into the defense business...
Huck started the yacht company in 1928 after selling a family lumber business because he liked boats better. He is the designer; his partner, a close-mouthed Yankee named Henry Skinner Baldwin, is the businessman. Their Fairform Flyers (produced at a profit each year even during the depression) are expensive, carefully engineered boats known as the Duesenbergs of the small motor yacht class...
...Tommy Hart. Murmured he: "It is my business to keep the Admiral idle." The Admiral, weathered, wrinkled, tough as a winter apple, smiled broadly. As full of energy as a boy, he is far happier when he is bouncing around on inspection tours aboard his tooth-shaking, 245-foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According to precedent, he should have bowed out of the Navy five months ago. But when he reached the age limit of 64, Franklin...