Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Hull Crump, 80, since 1909 the iron-fisted boss of Memphis and, for two decades, of the whole state of Tennessee; of a heart ailment; in Memphis. Born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods of carpetbagger days, foxy Ed Crump got control of Memphis' Shelby County when he was elected mayor at 35, moved into state politics in the '205. From 1930 (when the stock-market crash removed his last rival) until Estes Kefauver's successful insurrection in 1948, he ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election...
...results, in the 1955 line: air intakes are silenced, and special rubber-and-steel mounts have been added to "isolate the motor from the boat," thus cut down the sounding-board effect of the boat's hull. In addition, the power heads of all the company's larger motors (10 h.p. and up) are now clamped in a rubber-sealed casing that keeps the noise in and the water...
Plastic Boat. A 51-ft. plastic boat drawing less than two feet of water when loaded to its five-ton capacity has been built for the Army by the Englander Co. Constructed in bolted sections, the craft can be taken apart for air shipment. The 1½-in.-thick hull of resin-treated cotton duck sandwiched between layers of Fiberglas is five times stronger than steel of equal thickness, only a fourth as heavy...
...plant in her hold, the 1,275-ton Honduran freighter Omar Babun steamed out of Philadelphia one day last May on a coastwise voyage to Havana. Off the Carolina coast, the Babun ran into a full gale. Her cargo shook loose, tearing away the deck supports and ripping her hull. Captain José Villa ordered the ship beached on the desolate Outer Banks, 25 miles above Cape Hatteras. That night Captain Villa and his crew were taken off on a Coast Guard lifeline, and the Babun was abandoned 300 yards offshore in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic...
When he heard about the Omar Babun, Canipe drove 200 miles to the scene to have a look. After flying over the stricken freighter in a chartered plane and inspecting her from close range, Canipe disagreed with the experts. He flew to New York City, bought the hull for $3,500 and signed an agreement with the insurance companies: he would get 30% of the value of any cargo that he might manage to recover. Then he hurried back to the Babun, got to work. With an assault team of five men from his shop and a crew...