Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rodolfo Arujo won the Tenth International Tuna Tournament for his country's team by landing the match's largest tuna, a 723-lb. bluefin, taken in 1 hr. 45 min. Next, in order of finish: Argentina, Cuba, The Netherlands. The U.S. team failed to boat a fish...
...BOAT (101 pp.)-Walfer Gibson -Houghfon Mifflin...
...Navy has apparently relegated to the second team its most effective weapon in the Pacific melee-the submarine. Perhaps some boning up on naval history will remind the Navy that both the Kaiser and Hitler came very close to winning two entirely different world conflicts with the U-boat ... It would be prudent and appropriate for the Navy to put at least equal emphasis on undersea warfare that it is now placing on aviation...
WITH steel output up 40% in the first seven months of 1953, Great Lakes ore boats are hauling the greatest tonnages since the Mesabi Range opened 61 years ago. U.S. Steel's 64-boat fleet, which racked up its first 4,000,000-ton month in August, is headed for a full-year haul of 29 million tons, 3,000,000 more than in 1951, the peak year...
...remote south coast of Manus Island, 200 miles from New Guinea, famed Anthropologist Margaret Mead was interrupted in her research last month by an urgent message. The district commissioner had sent a boat to tell her that New York was trying to reach her by telephone. Fearing some emergency, Dr. Mead set off on a seven-hour trip through dangerous reefs and rough seas to take the call. It turned out to be from a researcher working for Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. The message: "Dr. Mead, we are conducting worldwide research into the smoking habits...