Word: motorboater
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...miles from shore. He struggled four hours before a native picked him up in a canoe. The native hid Carl until he was strong enough to start back to camp on foot. But the Japs had landed between the Marines and the native village. "I fixed up an old motorboat the native had and went back by sea," Carl said, without explaining that he had had to putt-putt past Japanese-held beaches, where he was subject to fire...
Discontinuing sectional and national championship regattas, the National Outboard Association last week ruled that any outboard motorboat speed records made between now and the time Hitler is "beached" will be unofficial...
...striking design for the post-war car has already come from Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button...
...latest sporting event which World War II has knocked out is the world's toughest outboard motorboat race: the annual May marathon down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan (136 miles). Cause: the Eastern Seaboard's new gasoline regulations...
...miles, a record still. As he worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...