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Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...
...Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern. The Navy, always alert for new designs, helped him experiment, started him off with an order of 13. Result: Eureka (patented...
Next day Engineer Hecox told Eureka County coroner's jury a hair-raising tale. He said he had spotted a green tumbleweed covering the spot where his locomotive had run amok. Beneath, the rails had been loosened...
...Court today set the seal of approval on New York Officials' censorship of the Czechoslovakian film, "Ecstasy." The Court dismissed the appeal of Eureka Productions, Inc., from a Southern New York Federal District Court decision refusing to enjoin authorities from interfering with exhibition of the film, which shows a beautiful woman swimming without a swimming suit...
...changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over to descriptions of the red-light districts, skid roads and loggers' saloons that have flourished from Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between slightly sophomoric tributes to vanished vice. Author Holbrook's loggers get into so many fights, frequent so many bawdy houses, sing so many logger songs and swear so many round oaths...