Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Henry is convinced that the one-third are not necessarily either stupid or underprivileged; they are just "nonverbal." Many of them have good minds and superior talents ("the kind of intelligence it takes to build a boat from blueprints"). Some cities now put such students in vocational schools-but there, Henry objects, they take four years to learn what they could learn (with pay) in industry in a few months. His recommendations: more movies and radios in the schools, much more pioneering in the uses of arts-drama, music and painting, "to sharpen the awareness of pupils to their...
Unpredictable Andrew Jackson Higgins was going back into the boat-building business. Apparently he had forgotten all about his determination to shut up shop because of labor difficulties in New Orleans (TIME, Nov. 19). Last week Higgins announced the formation of a new concern, Higgins, Inc., which he hopes to finance by selling $10,000,000 in stock to the public...
...months the aviation industry has speculated on whether or when the world's biggest airplane would ever fly. Last week speculation turned to skepticism. Reason: Charles W. Perelle, the crack production man who had been hired to complete Howard Hughes' 212-ton, 750-passenger flying boat, quit his job in a huff...
Perelle went to work enthusiastically. He speeded up work on the flying boat, got it so nearly finished that the only big job left was to get it from Culver City, Calif, to Los Angeles' harbor, 28 miles away, for final assembly and testing. But the $18,000,000 granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to build the plane had been spent. Although Hughes had agreed to meet any costs over this amount, Perelle went to Washington and saw RFC. Having already sunk so much in the plane, RFC agreed to put up another $1,500,000 to move...
Lose a Million. With some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along with most of Gross's million. He went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead...