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...matter of patents. Rivals were discouraged because 1) the demand for submarines is so unstable, 2) subma- rines are so frighteningly hard to build. Peace and subs do not mix. To survive between wars Ebco looked to its Electro Dynamic Co. (marine engines and gen- erators) and Elco Motorboat Works* (pleasure cruisers), both at Bayonne, N.J. During the depression Ebco employment dropped to a low of 300, annual sales averaged $2,500,000, annual losses $1,000,000. Desperate, Ebco grabbed whatever work it could get. For Atlantic Coast Fisheries it built a fish-skinning machine, for a nearby beauty...
...Besides this, Ebco in 1936-40 refunded $5,669,000 to the Navy−20% more than total net profits for the same years.>/Footnotes> * An Elco-built PT boat took MacArthur off Bataan
...charge, or no one fired it. British troops which had reached Flushing to the southwest and Amsterdam to the north, a French mechanized force which had reached Breda to the southeast, were all too slow, powerless or witless to intervene. Dutch Foreign Minister Elco van Kleffens said German parachutists disguised as Dutch police prevented it. In any case, preceded by one last torrent of air bombs upon Rotterdam, which stubborn Dutch fighters had twice cleared of Nazis, the invaders rolled over the bridge and into the city...
...style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...
Costs. Most expensive of the 100 boats in the exhibit was a 48-ft. Elco ($20,000). Cheapest was a 12-ft. Kayak ($13.95). Boats equipped with toilet, started at $1,590 for a 25-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser containing bunks for four & galley. Most orders were received for motor boats in the low and medium price range ($500 to $6,000). Maintaining its trend, rising steadily since 1931, the industry reported more orders on opening day than last year...