Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest boat in the show was a 51-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 200-h.p. diesels, a complete electric galley, two showers, and staterooms for eight. It was sold for $88,000 to John Sparler of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a paper executive. The flashiest boat was Century Boat Co.'s chrome-trimmed, 55-m.p.h. Coronado speedboat, with wrap-around windshield and a 285-h.p. Cadillac V-8 engine. Ten minutes after the doors opened, Radu Irimescu, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S., who now works for Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., snapped it up for about...
...invasion beachhead. A young naval ensign with a walkie-talkie said: "Can I help you, sir?" "Sure," roared the general, "if you can connect with your [profanity deleted] Navy, tell them for [profanity's] sake to drop some shellfire on that road." Somehow the ensign raised the cruiser Boise, which devastated the tanks with 38 rounds of 6-in. shells. "General Patton's conversion to the value of naval-gunfire support," observes Rear Admiral Samuel Morison in the latest volume of his classic history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, "dates from that moment." With Volume...
...have gone up from 290,000 units in 1951 to an estimated 500,000 in 1954. Rising incomes and increased leisure time have contributed to the boom. So has the do-it-yourself trend, which makes it possible to be an outboard yachtsman, with a homemade, 23-ft. cabin cruiser for as little as $859. Among real outboard fans, it is not unusual to hitch up two motors astern for added speed and maneuverability. Another stimulant to the boom has been the creation of man-made lakes and waterways in Southern states where boating has become a year-round sport...
Died. Willis W. Bradley, 70, retired U.S. Navy captain, onetime (1929-31) governor of Guam and Republican Congressman from California (1947-49), winner of the Medal of Honor in 1917 for heroism during an ammunition explosion aboard the cruiser Pittsburgh (he rescued a sailor, then put out a fire that had almost reached other explosives); of a heart ailment; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...yourself boom reached its peak? No one thinks so -least of all the do-it-yourselfers. As their skills increase, they see themselves tackling bigger and bigger projects. The man who has put together an 8-ft. pram begins to leaf through plans for an 18-ft. outboard cruiser. The woman who has restuffed and recovered an old chair begins to wonder if she could not make a set of furniture for the dining room. Sales to the shoulder trade are climbing so fast that by 1960 the estimates are that they will be well over $10 billion...