Word: outboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. It was well out to sea, in the approved international corridor. Suddenly, two prop-driven fighters, the red markings bright on their cream-colored paint, flew up alongside, dropped back, and stitched through the airliner from behind with cannon and machine-gun fire. The Skymaster's outboard port engine caught fire; the next burst knocked out the outboard starboard engine, and set the wing tanks ablaze. In the cabin, passengers cowered in their seats, but for some it was no protection against the fire from the attackers...
...OUTBOARD motor boom is putting along faster than ever. From October through January, a record 168,000 outboards worth $39 million have been sold by U.S. firms, a unit increase of 39% (51% in dollar figures) over the same period...
Dempster took to the Zambezi a service rifle. 4,000 rounds of war-surplus ammunition and a wooden dinghy with an outboard motor. He soon met an indignant bull-hippo, who immediately seized both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into...
...Outboard Starter. Evinrude Motors announced a new 25-h.p. outboard motor with a built-in electric starter to replace the starter cord. Price...
What was more perplexing was that Evinrude, son of the founder of Outboard Motors Corp. (which had merged with Johnson 16 years ago), was still the company's chief stockholder, controlling about 20% on the company's 594,288 shares outstanding. "I never had an inkling," said Evinrude. "It's never been done before. Usually such things happen when things get bad. We just had our best year ever." All that was true enough. In 1952, sales of Outboard, Marine had reached an alltime high of more than $42 million or about $10 million over...