Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply the new market, the character of the U.S. boat industry is changing. New boat trailers make it possible for a family to buy a boat, keep it in their backyard and tow it along behind the family car to any lake or seashore launching spot. Estimates are that there are already 750,000 boat trailers on U.S. highways, and the number is growing every year. With sales of 140,000 trailers worth $21 million last year, U.S. trailermakers hope to increase their market in 1957 to $25 million for 151,000 trailers, ranging from $100 rigs...
...mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space at only 20,000 slips and moorings...
Families, Not Fishermen. The marina builders will have a hard time catching up with the boat-crazy U.S. public. With more leisure and higher pay than ever before, almost any U.S. worker can buy a boat, pay for it on time (33% down, 24 months for the balance) and go bouncing off over the whitecaps and away from crowded highways. The new yachtsmen want their boats for family fun instead of for a strictly masculine hobby...
With new materials and manufacturing methods, the boats themselves are inexpensive to own and operate. Some 20% of all boats are currently made of tough new plastic materials such as Fiberglas, which can be molded into any shape, impregnated with a dazzling array of colors. Today's inboard and outboard runabouts are as flashy as any Detroit automaker's creation with upswept tail fins, wrap-around windshields, foam-rubber bucket seats, airplane-type controls-and they come at bargain prices. With mass-production assembly lines, do-it-yourself boat kits, and half-finished boats that the buyer completes...
...much of the battle for the beaches -and does it with freshness and sharp detail. What seems plain is that the Germans ensured Allied success by a series of blunders: they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting to turn a whole Army group loose on the Pas de Calais. To meet the Pas de Calais attack that never came, the Germans kept 19 divisions at the ready...