Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
With the Davis "perfect wing" as a starter, Consolidated in ten months built its new boat from the ground up without help from Army or Navy. Long before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...morning of the second day a dory containing five men from the Rose was picked up by the gasoline boat Amacitia off the coast of Nova Scotia. They had rowed 80 miles. A few minutes later, eight miles away, the Amacitia sighted another dory with four men from the Parker. One boat rowed all the way to land. Within 40 hours of the crash every last man had turned up, little the worse for wear. Captain Albert Hines of the Rose calculated that he and his own dory-mates had rowed 150 miles. The others didn't bother...
...child of nine, while engaged in his "daily task of rowing a large boat one quarter of a mile," dislocated his right hip, was forced to remain in a cast for six weeks. His epileptic seizures returned. But deep breathing and arm exercises helped him while he was bedridden, and when he recovered, he went back to his training with no further attacks...
Earlier in the morning, the third Varsity boat, stroked by Barr Comstock, earned a leg on the Stewards Cup by leaving the Union Boat Club nearly three lengths in the wake. And with an ample length of open water, the second 150 boat easily led the Pennsylvania crew in a four boat race...