Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refrigerators, 49 gas stoves, 41 electric stoves, 30 have electric washing machines, and 63 have vacuum cleaners. There are 140 radios, 87 autos and ten television sets among each 100 families, and 32 of the families have one or more dogs. Six of each 100 own a motorboat or yacht and one owns a private airplane...
...bleary-eyed, he started to walk to the town, when he met a group of natives, all eagerly running toward the beach. He asked one what had happened. The native signaled that the French meterologist on the island had received a radio message saying that a New Zealand yacht, the Miru, had founded in a hurricane off Rapa. The French government announced that it would take one-half of any salvage from the Miru, and the island's natives would get the other half. That, he said, was why everyone was going to the beach; wreckage was sure to drift...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...find the answers to these and similar questions, Arthur Stanley Talbott, a California advertising man, questioned in top California executives ($35,000 a year and up). He checked the parking-lot attendants at their plants, spoke to their wives, secretaries and doctors, snooped around their golf and yacht clubs, even checked their medicine cabinets. Last week Talbott released his findings...
Bound for Norfolk from Rhode Island aboard her ocean-going yacht When & If, Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls...