Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bert Halses summer eight oared crews put the finishing touches to an active but informal rowing season at Weld Boat Club yesterday afternoon when they fought out a half-mile duel in a misty rain on the Charles River...
...Charge Specifically." The technical purpose of the inquiry was to find out, if possible, why the Government had not yet-two years after the war-got any return whatever on the $18 million it invested in Howard Hughes's mammoth wooden flying boat; and why it had received only one unusable aircraft for the $22 million it sank in Hughes's XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane. But there was another more pressing point, and Senator Brewster went rapidly...
Brewster reminded his listeners that the committee first got interested in inquiring into Hughes's big flying boat back in 1942, when Harry Truman headed the committee. He recited Army and War Production Board objections to it. As for pressures to drop the inquiry, it was Hughes himself who had come to him soon after he (Brewster) had been made the committee's chairman when the Republicans reorganized Congress last January. "He [Hughes] said he wanted a hearing right now." It was Hughes who had brought up "the matter of a possible merger involving Pan American-I hadn...
...days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough for a Hollywood premiere (TIME, Aug. 11), the Dominican plotters were still preparing...
...helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have plenty of staying power in a long race...