Word: chris
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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...
...water baby. He ran passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac...
...Among the largest motor boat builders in the U. S. are, for cruisers, Elco, American Car & Foundry (ACF), Matthews, Consolidated Ship Building Corp., Banfield; for runabouts, Chris Smith & Sons, Horace E. Dodge, John L. Hacker, Gar Wood, Sea Sled...
...last boat built by Chris Smith & Sons for Gar Wood was Miss America II in 1921. Today Gar Wood has his own boat factory...