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Clippers, which were called the "greyhounds of the sea," were the fastest ships of their day. The Sea Squall set a record by sailing from New York to Rio de Janeiro in 28 days...
...Snow Squall] is the only surviving example of an American-built clipper ship," said E. Fred Yalouris '71, the project's director and an associate in historic archaeology with the Peabody museum...
...group, one third of whom were associated with Harvard, removed a 35-foot portion of the bow and, earlier this month, returned it to South Portland, Maine, near the original port where the Snow Squall was built in 1851, Yalouris said...
...some $10 million on his three Kookaburras. But he did not decline a $66,000 check handed over last week by 1983 Winner Alan Bond, his rival Perth wheeler-dealer whose Australia IV was beaten in the defender trials. Before that peace offering, though, the two had exchanged a squall of nasty words following Australia's defeat...
...trade squall blew across the northern border last week. In a sudden reversal of position, the Commerce Department declared Canada was unfairly subsidizing exports of softwood lumber to the U.S., an activity that was worth more than $2.8 billion last year. In response, the Reagan Administration said it would impose a 15% countervailing duty, which is expected to cause the cost of new U.S. housing to rise by $1,000 a unit or more...