Word: algonac
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...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
...turn out his boats by the hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands on the boats in his workshop. Brown and weatherbeaten as one of his Indian friends, Chris Smith is a most unassuming captain of industry. He has one and only one boast: that the Algonac post-office has been raised two grades through the importance of Chris Smith & Sons Boat...
Elected. Jay Smith, eldest son of Boat Builder Chris Smith (Chris-Craft), to be president of Chris Smith and Sons Boat Co., at Algonac, Mich. Chris Smith becomes chairman. His other sons Bernard, Owen and Hamilton are company executives. His daughter Catherine is treasurer...