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...matter of patents. Rivals were discouraged because 1) the demand for submarines is so unstable, 2) subma- rines are so frighteningly hard to build. Peace and subs do not mix. To survive between wars Ebco looked to its Electro Dynamic Co. (marine engines and gen- erators) and Elco Motorboat Works* (pleasure cruisers), both at Bayonne, N.J. During the depression Ebco employment dropped to a low of 300, annual sales averaged $2,500,000, annual losses $1,000,000. Desperate, Ebco grabbed whatever work it could get. For Atlantic Coast Fisheries it built a fish-skinning machine, for a nearby beauty...
...Several sailors had succeeded in getting off a small motorboat. . . . Trying to splash toward it, I went under again. . . . A score of others had the same idea. . . . Finally the motorboat tipped over, hurling us all into the sea.* I saw the black silhouette of a destroyer about 75 yards ahead. . . . I managed to propel myself forward and hang on to a ladder, safe, but so spent I couldn't pull myself up. At that moment a life raft drifted against the destroyer's side. It banged my head against the warship and I cried out time and again...
...surrender to the Germans, four couriers chug-chugged by motorboat to the Greek mainland, put-putted by motorcycle to Yanina in Epirus, where their conquerors waited. The same evening Corfu authorities received a telegram accepting their submission...
...fisherman's wharf, a few miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many...
...British hurried the weary process of rounding up and counting prisoners. About 20,000 were taken, including General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, the little general of tremendous appetite and temper whom the British thought they had at Bardia, but who escaped by motorboat. Recalling the old saw about the British being a nation of shopkeepers, an enthusiastic BBC announcer telling of the Bengasi victory' exclaimed: "The British are rapidly becoming a nation of wop-keepers...