Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garrison stood fast. A year ago the Communists attacked across the lake's frozen surface, were repulsed in a savage, three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...
...North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found an American corporation: the Electric Boat Co. of Manhattan and Groton, Conn., manufacturer of submarines, PT boats, pleasure craft and engines...
...Electric Boat got the plant on a 15-year lease. It put up $1,000,000 at once and will add later a larger sum (reportedly upwards of $20,000,000). Electric Boat's vice president, 53-year-old John Jay Hopkins, becomes Canadair's new board chairman. Canadair now has orders for 20 transports for Trans-Canada Air Lines and 24 military planes for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Hopkins is shooting for a $40,000,000-a-year international business. He hopes to add another $10,000,000 by reconverting and overhauling planes...
...first venture into airplane manufacturing, Electric Boat Co. hired H. Oliver West, former executive vice president of Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co., as Canadair's new president. Unlike Hopkins, President West is no newcomer to Canada (he helped organize Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937) or to plane making (he is credited with bossing Boeing production of half the B-17s and 70% of all the B-29s made for the U.S. during...
South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclassmen, land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street, near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club...