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...that body's approval of a $286,000,000 Naval appropriation bill which provided not only 2,800 more seamen and 1,000 additional marines for the 16 new ships which will be completed in the next 17 months but also funds for beginning another 8-in. gun cruiser and three more 6-in. gun cruisers. Including PWA money, $442,000,000 will be spent on the Navy in fiscal 1935. When later in the week the House passed the Naval appropriation bill without change, Admiral Standley could boast that the Navy with 58 new ships would at last...
...much did the biggest cruiser in Manhattan's Motor Boat Show cost...
...motorboat show differs from an automobile show in that practically all the new developments are invisible to the untrained eye. A five-year-old cruiser could be planted on the floor among its newborn sisters and the layman would never know the difference. Radical changes in design from year to year are practically unknown. But there are always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist...
Deep into the low-price field dived Chris-Craft, the company founded by Christopher Columbus Smith and now run by himself, his four sons, three grandsons and two granddaughters. They offered a utility runabout for $495. Another notable new Chris-Craft is the 24-ft. family cruiser with four berths, stove, ice box and toilet for $1,495. The minimum in overnight comfort (two berths) in a utility cruiser, can be had for $1,295 plus $45 for a toilet. Chris-Craft also has its line of runabouts, ranging up to a showy 27-footer...
...ship was the biggest that could possibly be squeezed in. At their Brooklyn. N. Y. plant the Wheelers proceeded to build a 54-footer, serenely aware that nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon...