Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. chartered the powerful, war-built tugs from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will use them to pull two tin-mining dredges from Miami through the Panama Canal to the Netherlands Indies for the Netherlands Government. To shrewd President Moran, the job is more than a pay haul across the Pacific. It will give him a chance to gauge his financial chances of beating the Dutch at their own game, at their expense, before the Dutch and British get their deep-sea tugs operating again, full steam...
...steamship lines have been barred by CAB from operating scheduled airlines to foreign points, though foreign lines can do so. Last week Mobile's aggressive Waterman Steamship Corp. got around CAB. Through its subsidiary, Waterman Airlines, Inc., the steamship company made a deal to get control of TACA Airways, S.A., shaky Central and South American airline system (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945). As TACA is incorporated in Panama, it is beyond CAB's authority. Yet recently, under the reciprocal rights granted foreign lines, TACA was given the right to operate out of Miami and New Orleans on its routes...
...TACA, Waterman picked Jack W. Thornburg, 44, vice president and general manager of Waterman Airlines, Inc., who firmly believes that "the speculative, romantic thing" is out of airlines and the era of hardheaded operation...
...oldtime boatbuilders with a completely new postwar line was the Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...
...trend toward new materials and new construction methods was best shown in small boats. On hand were: unsinkable aluminum "Air Skiff" dinghies made by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (price: $250 & up); Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.'s new aluminum dinghy, along with its older aluminum canoe; magnesium rowboats of the Dow Chemical...