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Word: algonac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting out to "get acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Helen's Headache | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, and the St. Clair River from Lake Huron was clear of ice as far as Algonac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Battle of the Lakes | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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