Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
Whittling out duck decoys first gave Chris Smith the idea for a motorboat that would be short, broad, flat so as to ride on top of the water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched...
...class A Harvard stands fourth and will have to beat out Newton Center. Union Boat Club, and Harvard Club. Harvard Club is the only team ranking higher than Harvard in class B. The Walkover Club, now standing third, promises to furnish keen opposition, however. Harvard stands in the middle of the rank list in class C, in which Harvard Club heads the list with no defeats...
University, team A: December 14-Newton Center; January 4-Tennis and Racquet Club at Boston; 11-Union Boat Club; 18-Harvard Club; 25-open; February 1-Newton Center at Newton; 8-Tennis and Racquet Club; 15-Union Boat Club at Boston; March 1-yale (tentative...
University, team B: December 14-Lincoin's Inn; January 4-Harvard Club at Boston; 11-Walkover Club; 18-M. I. T.; at M. I. T.; 25-Union Boat Club...