Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week there was the feel of the sea. As yachtsmen crowded into the 1948 National Motor Boat Show, they were "piped aboard" by the cheery notes of a boatswain's whistle. There was another cheery note: in the cheaper price class there were more boats than ever. Some prices were down from last year's, though most were...
...first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than all the other boatbuilders combined...
While the college front has remained clear, the metropolitan league in which five Crimson teams participate in almost daily matches, has presented some problems. Here, the squash men are having their hands full with older, more experienced teams from such clubs as the Union Boat Club, University Club, and Harvard Club of Boston, which claims some of the sharpest players around the Hub. But standings here mean little to the Crimson, as court men repeat the old story; it's experience that counts...
...work for a Doctorate of Philosophy in Literature, after which he plans to teach on a secondary school level. He was graduated from Thayer Academy and took his pre-war college years at Colgate. His Navy service record includes participation in the Normandy invasion and command of a terpedo boat...
...tugboat Sprague, known for 45 years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...