Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers of other yachtsmen building palaces that float. Last week arrived in New York the Savarona, longest motor yacht in the world, built at Wilmington, Del., for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. Experts, friends, reporters scrambled along her decks absorbing her astounding luxuries, delved in her engine rooms peering at gauges, twiddling gadgets...
...backbone of most of these clubs' existences is local racing. From little dinghys raced by children all the way to the largest schooner yachts in the cult of sailing speed is worshipped. Many, particularly inland clubs, race roaring motor boats. The chief international races are between the famed 6 metre sailboats (about 35 feet on deck) for which British boats visit various foreign clubs including U. S. and U. S. boats are carried across the seas to race in foreign waters. This summer there will be a trans-pacific race to Honolulu. The King and Queen of Spain have offered...
When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...
...foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all manner of gadgets ranged themselves agreeably on the shelves. The 23rd annual Motor Boat Show was declared open...
...arrived but was not admitted. The show space was already overcrowded. She was removed to the show rooms of her owner Gar Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency and raced by the only notable woman marine speedster, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of Horace E. Dodge, famed maker of Dodge automobiles...