Word: outboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salty observers noted that speed was the keynote. Slim mahogany hydroplanes to carry a half dozen slightly bewildered passengers were credited with 55 miles per hour. Large lumberers of the cruiser type were ticketed to do 25. Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h. Oldsters recalled how very few years ago it was when none but the maddest special speed boats ran over...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
September Seizures in Detroit were: 199 cars and trucks; 190 boats; 38 outboard motors; 1,572 kegs of beer; 2,063 cases of whiskey; 30,000 cases of beer-total value for the month...
...modern construction, was tested last fall. The tests were made by exploding bombs, simulating the largest bombs dropped by airplanes and the largest submarine torpedoes, in the water around her, to determine the resistance of her hull to external explosions. The result was to flood some of her "outboard explosion spaces" and "double bottom spaces"; her inner hull was not ruptured and the few leaks that were started could easily have been plugged up, or the water pumped out. At no time did she list more than five degrees. No material damage was done by the shock to such machinery...