Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing-board yawl, Callooh, designed by Phil Rhodes, and driven her to apparent victory in the annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb. Not only that, but Rhubarb's sister ship, Southern Star II, was third. Both brand new, the two boats were the work of 39-year-old William H. Tripp Jr.-a new designer who is currently the talk of ocean sailors, and who may prove...
...reason for Black's confidence in rising sales was delivered to the trucking industry this month. It was a fiber-glass cab, first in the industry, which is designed to cut 1,000 Ibs. to 1,500 Ibs. from the total weight of a tractor-trailer combination, permitting truckers to raise their payload correspondingly...
...fiber-glass cab was the latest example of Black's truck pioneering, which has enabled it in the heavy field (13 tons and up) to outsell G.M., Ford and Chrysler combined. Its whole line runs neck and neck with the only other all-truck company, Mack Trucks...
Sears, Roebuck promoted a package of a 12-ft. fiber-glass or aluminum boat, 7½h.p. outboard engine and 600-lb. -capacity auto trailer. Price: $477, with only $48 down. Rhode Island's Pearson Corp. showed off its 28-ft., six-berth auxiliary sloop, Peerless Triton, priced at $9,750, and Cape Cod Shipbuilding exhibited its 23-ft. sloop-rigged Marlin cruising sailboat, which has done well in midget ocean-racing. For those who want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons...
Competing with foreign craftsmen, many a U.S. builder cut his own prices. Lone Star lightened the weight of its best-selling 14-ft. Malibu outboard by 10%, lightened the price by $100, down to $525. Enginemakers also trimmed prices and weight, switched to aluminum and fiber glass to get more horsepower per pound. McCulloch Corp., the No. 3 outboard-motor maker (after Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer) cut prices of its Scott motors as much as 10%. Kiekhaefer lopped about 5% off two of its Mercury motor prices...