Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
Touring the Great Lakes last Fall in a Mathews cruiser, Mr. Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...
...Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...
...boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...
What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...