Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles per hour. She cost...
...pieces in the world, has written authoritatively on numismatics. A collector of rare books, he especially prizes a volume which contains signatures of most of the Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self...
...present, the U. S. yacht architects with the biggest contracts are Cox & Stevens and John H. Wells, Inc., both of Manhattan...
John H. Wells, Inc., designed yachts and commuting cruisers for F. Trubee Davison, L. Gordon Hammersley, Nelson Doubleday, Walter P. Chrysler, and a total of ten for the brothers Fisher of General Motors. Architect Wells designed his first yacht before he was graduated from Cornell...
...Germany still gets some of the huge contracts, where the saving is great, such as Vincent Astor's Nourmahal, flagship of the New York Yacht Club (TIME...