Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command, and signed up some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat at the Amazon delta and steamed to the at tack. Veloso and Lameirao thereupon took off from Santarem for parts unknown, apparently to hide for a time, then seek new adherents or safe exile...
California's Multimillionaire Howard Hughes got an eviction notice from the City of Long Beach. As of April, Plane Builder Hughes's huge (200-ton) experimental flying boat, the Hercules, 14 years abuilding at an estimated cost of $25 million, will be viewed as a squatter on city real estate. Actually, the Hercules has done nothing but squat since 1947, when in its maiden (and only) test flight, with intrepid Airman Hughes at the controls, it briefly lumbered 70 feet up into the air. If Hughes decides not to fight the eviction, the Hercules will probably be towed...
...Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed: "I'm going to deadstick her down." Then, after a moment of mature consideration, he changed his mind, declared, "No, I ain't," and bailed...
Ships & Sweat. Davis launches new businesses as easily as turning out an aluminum pan. Once he bought a 1,000-ton war-surplus Canadian minesweeper for a yacht, then decided to turn it into a banana boat. Result: Davis' Three Bay Lines now has seven ships transporting 1,000,000 tons of produce monthly between Caribbean ports. Everywhere around Miami, Davis draglines, Davis bulldozers, Davis dredges are filling in swampy land, cutting yacht canals to prepare the way for $35,000 to $100,000 homes...
...ranging in age from just-walking to just-wedding, who spend summers together on the west coast of Ireland. Huck Finn himself would like the way the Corners grow. "We shrieked together in joyful terror . . . Black bilge water, floating dirt and oil and fish scales had spurted through the [boat's] gratings, and into this we slid." "Harry wore [an old cavalry] sabre, but not before I had nearly killed him with it by a blow which might have split his skull...