Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just about every able-bodied sportfisherman in the Midwest was driving, flying or hitchhiking to Lake Michigan. Boats were passing under the Manistee River bridge at the rate of 13 a min ute. Anything that would float was in the water, from rowboats, canoes and sailboats on up to a 50-ft. deep-sea fish ing boat, Mitchell, up from the Ba hamas. Said Fisherman Bob Hurtel: "If there was one boat out there, there were 5,000. You could almost walk across the water on them...
...weeks ago, he forgave the organization a $13 million debt that he says it owed him for services rendered-an understandable act of charity considering that he has boasted to friends of having $7,000,000 stashed away in two numbered Swiss bank accounts. And he continued to float about the Mediterranean on his yacht, a 3,300-ton former channel steamer that is manned by some 200 blue-uniformed crewmen and students...
...truck-hauled float known as the Jazzmobile swings noisily through New York City, offering two-hour concerts in front of neighborhood community centers. Now in its fourth year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most...
Profits are still a long way off, but British Hovercraft is thinking big. Applying the hover principle to industry, the company is currently producing, mostly on an experimental basis, an air-cushion pallet called "Float-a-Load," which can be used to move industrial equipment weighing up to five tons. Its hopes are highest for the $4,000,000 SR.N4, whose potential market over the next ten years could exceed 100 orders if all goes well on its showcase channel crossings...
Some seem to fly through the air like a jet taking off. Some dangle from the ceiling and seem to float, like a yellow submarine, at ankle, knee-or eye-level. Yet none of these ever actually move, for they are not boats, not planes, but sleekly minimal bolts and beams cantilevered into a startling semblance of motion by Manhattan's Robert Grosvenor, 31. "I like sculpture to be a kind of quick thing, like what we see out of train windows," says Grosvenor. "I like things I've seen very fast and I don't know...