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...list of poet, musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced that his Isotta-motored* boat had attained a speed of 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) per hour, unofficially a new world's record. The fastest previously recorded speed for motorboats, made by Gar A. Wood's Miss America, in 1920, was 70 m.p.h...
...Cunard liner Mauritania, swiftest on the Atlantic, has attained a speed of 27 knots (about 31 m. p. h.). She crosses the Atlantic in slightly under five days. The speediest U. S. motor boats (such as those owned by Gar Wood) travel...
...recreational purposes, our [standardized] motor boat industry has grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars, as does Gar Wood, another famed maker of runabout (Baby Gar) craft. Dodge boats range in price between $2,195 and $7,200; Baby Gars between...
First among speedboats are the famed Gar Wood boats, the same that, in a standard Baby Gar, beat the 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York in 1925. They are 33 feet long. They go 55 miles an hour. They are equipped with big Gar Wood Super Marine Engines, 12 cylinders, 500 horse power. Three men can sit abreast on the driver's seat behind the windshield. The most powerful Gar Wood costs...
Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...