Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better companies which serve 10,000,000 U. S. readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
Before the telegraph was perfected, the pigeon post enjoyed a great vogue among stockbrokers. It was used by news agencies to report yacht races before the invention of wireless. Its military use is today largely confined to fortress warfare, large flocks being maintained at the inland strongholds of Germany, France, Russia. Of late in the U. S., the military importance of pigeons has been recognized because of the ease with which telegraph and wireless facilities can be interrupted in modern warfare...
Jimmy Melton's yacht is named Melody, and it's bigger than any twenty he made when e was a boy in Florida...
...leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht...
...hobby, was this year elected a director of the Associated Press to fill the vacancy left by the death of Adolph Ochs. A golfer, tennist, yachtsman and air traveler in his spare time, Publisher Gannett showed he was not without dash when, in 1931, he dived off his yacht Widgeon to rescue Mrs. Karl Bickel, wife of the then president of United Press...