Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains legally stepped up their take-home pay by sitting in a copilot's seat for an hour a week...
...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
Navy's yacht, that afternoon the Messrs. Truman, Attlee and King cruised up & down the Potomac and resumed their talks. The atomic bomb was the overriding topic, and word leaked out that Clement Attlee had a fresh proposal. It was a compromise between the "share" and the "don't share" proponents...
...hitherto suppressed portion of the Army Pearl Harbor Board report, Regular Army officer Wyman and his great & good friend Hans Wilhelm Rohl, a German-alien contractor, were accused of ". . . a scale of riotous living, drunkenness and both private and public misconduct . . . together." Rohl, on whose yacht Wyman frequently made what he called "inspection trips," was awarded many Army contracts in Hawaii in 1940-41, even though he was not always the lowest bidder...
Once, when friends insisted that a man in his position should own a yacht, he bought a 236-ft. boat for $1,000,000. But he rarely used it, in 1941 finally sold it to the U.S. Maritime Commission for the Navy for $175,000. When a friend asked him how things were aboard, he gave a businesslike reply. Said he: "The crew of 43 is eating regularly and appears to be healthy...