Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup contender Rainbow: a 30-mi. race against Frederick Henry Prince's Weetamoe; in light winds, off Newport. After the race, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee announced that Weetamoe had been eliminated as a possible defender, waited to see what Yankee, winner of most of the trials, could do against Rainbow in a stiff breeze before making a final selection...
...Cord fled to Britain, fearing lest their two strapping boys, two baby girls be kidnapped. They took a big house near London, could not get on with English servants or tradesmen. They were pleased when their yacht arrived from the U. S. because it brought them "pure" tinned milk...
Housing also became Mr. Moffett's immediate personal problem. He brought his 124-ft. yacht Bidou to Washington to live in. The District of Columbia has piers, at which yachts may be tied up, but the channels need dredging. The only pier with enough water to float Bidou was already rented for $30 per month to John Hays Hammond Jr. for his Ripple. Hence Mr. Moffett had to anchor Bidou out in the Potomac where he could not even have the convenience of a telephone...
Chatting economics excitedly with his gorgeously uniformed military staff, General Ismet then boarded a yacht loaned him by Dictator Kemal, sailed to two likely sites, one on the Bosporus, the other on the Black Sea, where he founded respectively a bottle factory and a semi-coke plant. The ceremonies over, he gave a champagne supper to foreign experts who are coaching Turkey's Plan...
...work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more months spent in actual production, the result of Director DeMille's elaborate functionings was placed before the public as Cleopatra...