Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 9, p. 19, you described Eric Titterington Bey as a taster of food for the King of Egypt, to guard him against poisoning. In the royal palaces at Cairo and Alexandria and on the royal yacht, used by the late King for his frequent trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped...
...last week, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Governor Landon, this was the genial advice which he gave his rival in the Presidential campaign. (Last week, President Roosevelt commemorated the occasion by going fishing himself-not in the river Potomac, because he had repaired to Hyde Park-but on the yacht Potomac, in Long Island Sound...
...Newport, R. I. Two oldtime, square-rigged windjammers sailed off together on a voyage. They were bound southeast few Bermuda, 660 miles away. So far as anyone knew this was the first formal match race in U. S. sailing history between two square-riggers, privately owned and under yacht pennants. Prizes were a special trophy offered by Commodore Van Santvoord Merle-Smith of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (Oyster Bay, L. I.) and a dinner for all hands, to be consumed in Bermuda and paid for by the losing owner...
Before starting on a cruise from Hamburg, Germany on her four-masted sailing yacht Sea Cloud, Mrs, Joseph Edward Davies, a director and largest stockholder of General Foods Corp., wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who last year took with her to the Soviet Union 2,000 pints of frozen cream, ordered from the U. S. two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, all packed by a General Foods subsidiary...
...colitis aboard his yacht Philante in New Harbor, off Block Island, R. L, lay Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America...