Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
England-Australia. For nearly three years the record of Pilot Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler-15½ days from England to Australia-withstood all assaults. Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London. Apart from the glamour of Kingsford-Smith's mission-going home after his trans-Atlantic flight to marry Mary Powell of Melbourne-the race was full of human interest. Of three others who essayed the route within the month...
...Rear-Admiral William Thomas Sampson steamed from Key West for the blockade of Santiago (TIME, Sept. I), Key West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served...
Died. Daniel Guggenheim, 74, famed copperman and philanthropist, father of U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, brother of Simon Guggenheim, onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel...
...line waiting for the whistle. So Captain Heard won the start again. The first leg was to windward, to a buoy off Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind (9 min. 17 sec.) and the race practically over at the end of the first leg. On the two remaining legs Shamrock gained but only because Skipper Vanderbilt was taking...