Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In countless shipyards along the snow blown coast, yachts are perched on stanchions like huge huddled birds, shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers...
The biggest yacht in point of view of tonnage is Vincent Aster's building in Germany. A Diesel engine oil burner. Over 2,000 tons.
Beribboned, bedraped, the interior of Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week went drydock. A 62 foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all...
A continuous splash of water played over woodwork invincibly varnished with Valspar. The hiss of Fyre-Freez extinguishing apparatus attracted knots of the curious. Small motion picture advertising machines explained to all who stood and watched the swift capacities of the various craft in water. A Chrysler marine engine artfully...
Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills...