Word: yachts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
...airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National Sugar Corp. On his 205-ft. Diesel yacht The Lotosland he has a pipe organ, a seaplane tender...
...usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...
...Radio-Controlled Yacht" will be the subject of a lecture and demonstration of experiments to be given by C. L. Dawes, associate professor of Engineering, before the Harvard student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Thursday at 7.45 o'clock, in Pierce Hall...
Eritrea, as Italians are proud to recall, is the first colony of any consequence which their young kingdom wrested from Abyssinia (in 1889 when the Kingdom of Italy was only 28 years old). Last week with all her pennants flying the royal yacht Savoia steamed into Massawa, a hot spot on the Red Sea even hotter than famed Aden...