Word: inboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million), the industry expects a 10% rise in outboard sales in 1959, similar gains for inboard powerboats and sailing craft...
When John Foster Dulles' plane rolled up onto the ramp at Manila's International Airport, a strong wind sent a gust of oil flying from the inboard port engine. It spattered across the welcoming committee of U.S. Admiral Felix Stump, in natty whites, Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, in a white sharkskin suit, a dozen newsmen. Said a bystander: "They suddenly looked like they'd gotten measles...
With new materials and manufacturing methods, the boats themselves are inexpensive to own and operate. Some 20% of all boats are currently made of tough new plastic materials such as Fiberglas, which can be molded into any shape, impregnated with a dazzling array of colors. Today's inboard and outboard runabouts are as flashy as any Detroit automaker's creation with upswept tail fins, wrap-around windshields, foam-rubber bucket seats, airplane-type controls-and they come at bargain prices. With mass-production assembly lines, do-it-yourself boat kits, and half-finished boats that the buyer completes...
...shower, electric galley, and private staterooms for ten. Price: $110,000. The most versatile: Neptuna's $4,400 Sportsman, a new amphibious auto trailer with retractable wheels that sleeps four on land or sea. The fastest: Bellingham Shipyards' 100-m.p.h. Bikini with hydroplane fiber-glass hull, twin inboard engines firing at 430 h.p., and a price...
...Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata, 39, had tried vainly to feather the prop, i.e., to still it by turning its blades into the air stream. With the engine dead, the prop was windmilling loosely...