Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought a secondhand, 93-ton yacht. With great ceremony he had re-christened it the Barbados after the island of his birth. He bought also two gaudy Packard limousines, seven pianos, which he put aboard his ship. He hired a captain, a crew, a chauffeur named Willie. With this outfit he would return to Barbados and make himself a king of trade. Last week he put to sea for the 1,500-mi. voyage home...
...left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says gave her "a magnificent set of Haviland china"), the late Lord Kitchener (who she says gave her "a cross between a yacht and a houseboat"), King Edward VII of Britain, Herbert Hoover, King Leopold of the Belgians, and such celebrities as Fanny Ward, Harry Kendall Thaw, Morris Gest. Once she started from London to go around the world "by picking up my traveling and hotel expenses as I went...
...family air yacht," a four-passenger dirigible newly built by Capt. Anton Heinen, bobbed at its stubby mooring mast at Toms River, N. J. one chilly afternoon last week. When the engine refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
Capt. Heinen, a Zeppelin pilot in the War, later a consulting engineer for the Navy's ill-fated dirigible Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), built his "air yacht" to be produced commercially "for family use." Its initial cost was $19,000, but the prospective purchase price, the designer said, would be "far below $10,000," the operating cost-per-mile lower than that of an automobile...
...plot consists of a burning and temporarily thwarted romance between Rogers and the daughter of a socially ambitious mother. Helen ("Boop-boop-a-doop") Kane is in it and there are some handsome yacht scenes. Most interesting shot-Buddy Rogers lighting a cigaret before the camera for the first time in his career...