Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual Motor Boat Show opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, it was evident that Morgan's rule of thumb no longer applied. In the biggest show in history, 248 exhibitors displayed boats for every pocketbook-from $39.95 for a shrimp boat to $72,700 for a cabin cruiser...
...those who like to pinch pennies in their own workshops, the build-it-yourself business had the widest assortment of models yet. On view were 38 different models put out by seven kit-boatmakers, ranging all the way from 8-ft. prams to cabin cruisers. U-Mak-It Products, which had 15 models on show, also puts out a kit for a 23-ft. cabin cruiser (see cut} for $844 without motor, a saving of about $1,000 on the readymade model. Depending on the size, a home builder could slice as much as 60% from the price...
...other dollar-conscious sailors, there were also sailboats and cruisers from Canada, Britain and The Netherlands, most of them built at prices well under those of U.S. yards. Queen of the fleet was the 55-foot cabin cruiser Capri, built by First Export Association of Dutch Shipbuilders (FEADSHIP) in its Aalsmeer yards. One of a line of more than 30 pleasure craft FEADSHIP has constructed for U.S. buyers, the Capri will sell for $72,700, a saving of upwards of $20,000 over a U.S.-built boat of the same size. Already on FEADSHIP's books are orders...
...just taken off when Ang quietly slipped into the pilots' cabin. The two pilots, thinking that a passenger had come in for a view of the cockpit, glanced behind them-and looked straight into the barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel...
...stumbled to the telephone in his pajamas and heard the excited ichthyologist pleading for an airplane to take him to the fish. Malan acted quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...