Word: outboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
...observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac...
...other picture at the University, called "Bird of Paradise", is just an other story of a Princeton boy going active in the South Seas and the arms of Doleres Del Rto. Joel McCrea and the chieftain's daughter run off in their B. V. D.'s and an outboard came to build houses and pick cocoa nuts on a private little Island. Paradise becomes promptly Lost through the intervention of Mount Pelee and the young lady's tribe. Mr. McCrea succeeds in straddling the smoking chasm which opens up beneath his fact, and trusty American fides prevent them from becoming...
Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight...
...Waukegan. On the Lake Michigan waterfront in Waukegan, 111., is the large plant of Johnson Motor Co. which was formed in 1921 to make a 35-lb., 2-h.p. outboard motor. From sales of 3,500 motors in 1922 the company reached a peak of 31.000 in 1929, a figure representing more than half the industry's output. The company now makes five sizes of outboard motors, ranging from the 1½-h.p. single cylinder motor to the 4-cyl., 32-h.p., 116-Ib. Johnson Sea Horse. During the last two years motorboat sales have dropped badly. Last week...