Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m.p.h. in London. At Worcester, where a dozen main roads converge on a single narrow bridge, lines of cars and trucks stretch as far as the eye can see. The Queensferry bridge over the River Dee-on the main route from the north in Wales-is barely wide enough for two lines of vehicles, and five-mile traffic jams are normal. The last piece of major road construction in London was built 50 years ago. A brand-new cloverleaf at nearby Chiswick, nearing completion after two years' work, is already conceded to be inadequate...
After Chris married Anna Rattray in 1884, ne settled down to raise a family-four boys, two girls. As soon as the youngsters were old enough to hold a clamp, he set them to work in the waterfront boat shop. In 1896, two years after his success with his first naphtha-gas boat, he and Hank tried a 2-h.p. Sintz gasoline engine. "It never ran well," says Chris's son Jay, 74, "until Charles Sintz showed up from Grand Rapids two years later with a gadget he called a carburetor...
Though Chris-Craft has the longest history and is the acknowledged leader in the inboard field (its sales are more than three times those of Owens, its closest competitor), the boom is big enough for all. Owens sold $12 million worth of boats last year v. $1 million in 1953. Such companies as Matthews, Wheeler and Richardson, who specialize in custom-quality boats, have shared handsomely in the general boom...
...revolution of their own in the last ten years. Traditionally, outboards were low-powered, designed with an eye on trolling fishermen. But after World War II, watching the growing trend to family boating, manufacturers began to produce more powerful engines that were designed to drive a boat big enough for the whole family and perky enough to pull a water skier. Since then, outboard motors have become bigger and bigger, now range up to 75 h.p. Equipped with electric starters, a remote steering wheel and gear shift, a modern outboard runabout can give any frustrated householder a heady sense...
...harried U.S. Coast Guard rescue squadrons have more trouble than they can handle, and it gets worse every year. Says one Coast Guard commander wearily: "They run aground, they run into buoys, they run into each other. They overload small boats and they go too fast. If they have enough gas to go eight miles, they'll go eight miles straight out and then have to be brought in." Last year a Coast Guard boat chugged out to rescue a man whose brand-new, 36-ft. cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed him a towline, whereupon the stalled...