Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler's prewar luxury yacht, the 375-ft. Grille, kicked up a bidding war among Britons who saw it as a money-making attraction. One bidder thought he had nabbed it for only $306,660; but the Admiralty said the end was not yet. Higher bids were in sight...
...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies & wife Marjorie (Post Close Hutton) took the long voyage home to Long Island. From Alexandria, Va. they went by yacht...
...week gave him other chances to be plain Harry Truman, the man who lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...
...roundheeled as a neutron, Lanny penetrates the atomic age. Roosevelt packs him off to Princeton for a cram-and-jam (physics and Mozart) session with Albert Einstein, thence to Germany to abduct atomic data. But a plane crash lays Lanny up on a spiffy yacht; two lovely young shipmates make sweet moan at him all the way to Hong Kong...
WASHINGTON. WHAT IS OFFICIAL SPELLING OF NAME OF PRESIDENT'S YACHT...