Word: outboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
...time last year. Inside the grimy plant, old hands had serious misgivings about how good the new driver would be, since he had no previous auto-industry experience. Sherwood Harry Egbert, 40, came from 14 years at Los Angeles' McCulloch Corp., a $70 million-a-year producer of outboard motors (Scott) and chain saws...
...when he went into the Marines as an Air Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ("How can you" be in a business without knowing the product...
...produce peanuts and both want the same thing: a higher standard of living for the people." The old chief, proud of the fact that such important visitors had come to his out-of-the-way village, beamed his thanks, suggested that perhaps President Kennedy could send over a few outboard motors for the community fishing boats. L.B.J. promised at least to send him a Johnson-motor...
...this system, plus a specially designed drill rig, got their first big test last fortnight when Cuss I, owned by Global Marine Exploration Co. and originally designed to drill oil wells in much shallower water, stationed herself off La Jolla, where the ocean is 3,140 ft. deep. Four outboard propellers driven by 200-h.p. engines churned the water fore and aft, but, according to plan, the ship did not move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing the ship's position...