Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture will deal with a 13,000 mile cruise from New London to Corsica and back by way of the West Indies. The "Wanderbird" is the largest yacht in the world to have only sail-power. It is 54 years...
...They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst whose cinema company made the film. President Hammond holds a debt parley on a yacht, gives visiting diplomats a display of U. S. navy planes sinking an obsolete warship. Then he proposes that Europe pay its debts in full on pain of being annihilated by a U. S. Navy built beyond treaty limits. All this ends in a covenant of total and apparently worldwide disarmament...
Talk that President Roosevelt's slim friend Vincent Astor would be made Assistant Secretary of the Navy was very natural. The master of the glossy white yacht Nourmahal, on which the President-elect cruised in February, used to be Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. He donated at least $25,000 to the Roosevelt campaign. But there is a Navy tradition about having Roosevelts for Assistant Secretary...
...borne him four children, is a partner in a smart book shop. Last month she registered her colors with the American Jockey Club, thus officially taking to horse racing like all the other Whitneys. Husband Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family have long been leading bankers. With a clear course for his Rustless Iron, he is now in a fair way to becoming dominant power in the sturdy young stainless steel business. His chief Rustless lieutenant on the technical side is Dr. John Otho Downey...
Having broken a winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...