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...bridal suite aft of the cockpit) and sports two heads, one with a shower. Price: $24,495. This comfortable concession to the growing popularity of sail is echoed in a 31-ft. economy model by the Sumner Boat Co., which provides a cutter rig and a 108-h.p. Ford diesel motor...
...boat business. Some 700,000 of them were sold last year, even though the price is going steadily up; in 1958 the average price of an outboard was $484, and last year it was about $600. Outboard innovation in this year's show is a 15 h.p. diesel by Scott at $1,095, designed for heavy-duty work loads and economical operation...
...barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate as much as 9,000 h.p., and can handle strings of barges longer than the Queen Mary...
...Industries Co., a smaller shipyard that seemed to be limping toward bankruptcy. But to Mori, who at 63 still retains the spirit he developed as a college oarsman, Sasebo represented an irresistible "sporting challenge." Firing up Sasebo's workers with daily pep talks, he diversified the company into diesel engines, bridges and steel tanks. He capitalized aggressively on the demand for supertankers created by the 1956 Suez crisis. Last July, Sasebo launched the world's biggest tanker, the 131,000-ton Nissho Mam, and last month it got an order for two 95,000-ton tankers from Socony...
...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...