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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little returned to Ann Arbor sans interview. It was then freely rumored that Governor Green might remove certain Regents, replace them with anti-Little men, force the Little resignation as Governor Roland H. Hartley had forced the resignation of Dr. Henry Suzzalo of the University of Washington (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jobless Little | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Will sleep two comfortably and luxuriously if they don't dislike each other." Sea Sleds are priced under a thou sand dollars; outboard motors, sold separately, bring the prices to the neighbor hood of $1,100. Model 18 has a minimum-guarantee speed of 27 m. p. h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...months as well as for week-end excursions are boats made by Elco* and by A. C. F. (American Car & Foundry). Elco (boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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