Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend is to luxury and gadgetry. Small runabouts with rakish lines, chrome fittings, and decorator-styled upholstery look more and more like cars, presumably to attract diffident womenfolk. Oceangoing yachts sport bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and baby blue staterooms. New compact radar sets, depth-sounders and other electronic gear cram the cockpits. Pushbutton winches eliminate the need to "weigh" anchor. Hot-water heating, cold-water cooling, seawater evaporators and adapters for turning iceboxes into electric refrigerators lure the boat owner. Apparently it takes a heap of gadgets to make a boat a home...
...Imperial regularly had so many maintenance problems that they took up half the time of a Federal Aviation Authority inspector in Miami, who reported the company this year had such "discrepancies" as hydraulic leakage, faulty fuel indicators, improper rigging of mixture control, a bald nose-gear tire, and fuel seepage under the wing...
...three units joined together. The forward unit-the command center-will house the three-man crew. The middle unit will be the service com ponent, providing oxygen and electricity and containing an auxiliary booster rocket for the take-off from the moon. The end unit will house the landing gear and decelerating rockets to lower the craft to a gentle moon landing...
...Saltwater barnacles and marine growth are the bane of boat owners, particularly in the offseason, when the boat is rarely used. "Boatbath," a kind of floating "wet dock," is designed to save the owner the expense of hauling out or the chore of scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water...
...growth of automation is also hard on smaller businessmen: most of them cannot afford to buy automated gear, but they must buck the steadily lower production costs-and selling prices-of the larger operators who can. To copper their bets against gyrations in consumer demands, bigger companies are diversifying into retail areas that have long been dominated by smaller dealers, e.g., mail-order houses have begun to sell prescription drugs, supermarkets are selling hardware and garden supplies. And the increase of cut-rate imports hurts smaller, single-product businessmen more than those who market a broad line...