Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Somaliland, Italy's straight little Vittorio Emanuele III landed from the royal yacht Savoia, dedicated a new fort on the boundary of envious Ethiopia, marched into the jungle on a big-game hunt...
...Railroad, great & good friend of the late Ivy Lee (see p. 34), got wind of rumors that "The General" was critically ill. Since he had a gallstone removed last August, General Atterbury had kept away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw. I haven't felt so good since last July...
Died, Gaston Menier, 79, French Senator and chocolate tycoon; in Chateau de Noisiel, his estate near Paris. In 1896 he bought for $160,000 Anticosti Island, big as Connecticut, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, "commuted" to France in his yacht, was feudal overlord of 500 families until the island was sold...
...Yacht races for the America's Cup in the 19th Century were customarily accompanied by bitterness and suspicion. That the tradition of rancor had stoutly survived the 31-year period in which the late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags...
...anchor in the scummy waters of Manhattan's East River, off 130th Street, lolled the 50-ft. white yacht Josephine with a red work flag flying at her masthead. For weeks & weeks Josephine had gone undisturbed about her business until one day last month the big seagoing tug Terminal bustled up, dropped anchor, went to work. From the Josephine came indignant cries of "poacher!" The men of Terminal retorted that nobody owned the river. A Coast Guard cutter appeared, ordered the tug to keep clear of the cables on the bottom. By last week the magic word GOLD...