Word: inboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borrowing the idea from a Long Island fisherman, they built something that looked like an overgrown rowboat, but had an inboard motor powerful enough to fly a small airplane. The Cuttyhunkers' "bass boats" cost about $4,500 apiece, but in them fishermen could profitably engage in a sport that was just as delicate and more dangerous than trout fishing. The trick was to avoid the submerged rocks, and to get at the fish at the right time-either by casting or trolling by moonlight. It was like an old-fashioned coon hunt on salt water...
...find anything about which to quibble, although Tom Bolles can generally find something which doesn't please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes, has been the envy of all who have seen...
...aircraft carrier, the Illustrious, has been badly hurt by the machine it nests. Both these encounters took place in the Sicilian channel last month (TIME, Jan. 27), and by last week attenuating circumstances had been discovered for both cases. A lucky hit on the Southampton started a fire inboard, which necessitated scuttling; and according to a statement last week by U. S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, it appeared that the Illustrious was transporting bombers and did not have her usual complement of fighters aboard...
...m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...