Word: outboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost 5,000 gold seekers soon converged on the site. From the territorial capital, Macapa, they rode 200 miles up the Amazon in motor launches, another 170 miles up the Jari, paying $75 to travel in dugouts with outboard motors; they portaged around twelve waterfalls and eight long rapids. Eronias Fernandes da Silva, discoverer of the gold and, by custom, proprietor of the field, rented them on a shares basis the right to pan or sluice along 20 to 30 yards of river bank...
...amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram by Roberts Industries ($35) and an 18-ft. outboard cruiser by Manhattan's U-Mak-It ($528 without motor) to a 31-ft. Chris-Craft cabin cruiser ($1,995). Chris-Craft alone has nine kit-boat models, has turned over their Caruthersville, Mo. factory to making them...
This week Don Douglas' inventors-of-necessity announced a new device which may well save hundreds of lives: a sea-rescue life raft which can be shot torpedo-like from a plane. On contact with the water, it inflates itself, starts its own outboard motor, can then be guided by radio beam from the mother plane to floating survivors. Now Douglas engineers are working on a brand-new project. Douglas Engineer Ed Heinemann, who thinks the aircraft bomb is the one piece of equipment which hasn't kept pace with aviation's modernization, is working...
...Seattle Engineer Wayne M. Ross planned to do was build a simplified sonar* device for finding sunken outboard motors, lost fishing gear and other salvage. When he thought he had solved the problem, he mounted his invention on a fishing boat and tested it off the coast of Alaska. It worked so well that he could not only spot schools of fish, he could usually tell what kind they were (by the size of the school and the depth at which it swam). Even more important, in narrow, rock-lined Alaskan channels his underwater signals bounced back from shoals...
...started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from $1.39 to 45?; 5-h.p. outboard motors from $203.95 to $157.00; Palm Beach suits from...