Word: motorboater
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...motorboat show differs from an automobile show in that practically all the new developments are invisible to the untrained eye. A five-year-old cruiser could be planted on the floor among its newborn sisters and the layman would never know the difference. Radical changes in design from year to year are practically unknown. But there are always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist...
...Sotos. These were not the traditional automobile with a streamlined body attached but a completely new design. Instead of a frame and body the whole steel-trussed body is the frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers as he would a motorboat, with his hands instead of his arms. But, most startling of all, the job is as close to perfect streamlining as is practical without mounting the engine in the rear...
Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...
British aircraftmen rained live bombs last week on a "human target," an armor-plated motorboat trickily steered by its inventor Aircraftman Shaw, once famed as Col. T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence...
...blustering day two years ago David Warshauer, 31, Brooklyn truckman, and his brother-in-law, Irving Tuchyner, set out from Oceanside. L. I. in a 16-ft. motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said...