Word: motorboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yacht and motorboat sales...
...secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting. As a fitting climax the crazy prince is injected into...
...lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...
...Harvard Mission Committee has been notified of the need of three men for service in Labrador this summer. The Grenfell Mission wishes two men with knowledge of sailing and motorboat engines, while--the Reverend William Stride of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, also needs a volunteer with some experience in running engines...
...other hand college men have done some of the following things. They have built, run, and supported for almost ten years a summer dispensary, with school and clubhouse, and have given fine service in a fast motorboat over fifty miles of coast at Spotted Islands on the north coast of Labrador. They have helped that section of our people in a thousand ways, materially, mentally, spiritually. This work began by one Williams man going down at his own expense for a summer. He is in China...