Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borrowing the idea from a Long Island fisherman, they built something that looked like an overgrown rowboat, but had an inboard motor powerful enough to fly a small airplane. The Cuttyhunkers' "bass boats" cost about $4,500 apiece, but in them fishermen could profitably engage in a sport that was just as delicate and more dangerous than trout fishing. The trick was to avoid the submerged rocks, and to get at the fish at the right time-either by casting or trolling by moonlight. It was like an old-fashioned coon hunt on salt water...
Operation Field Trip, unit, Geography 35a, Professor Erwin Raisz Commanding, made a navigational fix to the faultless second last week for the rendezvous point of the motor transport deep in the wilds of Winchester. Officer and men were to establish contact from different directions. The course being Mapmaking, they couldn't miss...
...more the committees studied the power requirements, the worse the figures looked. They feared that they would need five, maybe eight, motors of 250,000 horsepower each (biggest existing motor, 87,000 h.p.). These and lesser motors might bring power needs well above two million kilowatts. NACA was nearly stumped. It might have to split up its Buck Rogers testing center. There just wasn't enough available power in any one place to run the fabulous motors...
Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
More for Less. The "break-even" point of many a mass producer-i.e., the point at which rising volume cuts unit costs enough to show a profit, has also soared upwards. Example: the Ford Motor Co. which, before the war, was assumed, along with other automakers, to break even at 35% of capacity, must now operate at 75% of capacity to break even. This year it has -made 280,000 cars so far-and lost $38,000.000 net. Last week Young Henry Ford got a 6% boost in his car ceilings. G.M. is also seeking a boost. But somewhere...