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...Fishing Contest. At a given signal, 2,196 fishermen rushed out on frozen White Bear Lake near St. Paul, chopped holes in 28-inch ice and dropped in their bait. While 8,000 spectators watched (see cut), they fished for two hours. The winner, John Einum, got an outboard motor for catching a 5¼-lb. walleyed pike...
...Byers $18 $ 4.92 3.6 Consolidated Textile 13 5.69 2.3 D. L. & W. R.R. 9⅛ 1.93 4.5 Emerson Radio 23⅛ 5.65 4.1 Firestone Tire 35¾ 13.46 3.4 Martin-Parry 17¼ 5.97 2.9 Nash Kelvinator 16¼ 4.17 3.9 N.Y., Chi. & S.L. R.R. 44 17.82 2.5 Outboard Motor 21½ 4.38 4.9 Schenley 28⅜ 7.46 3.85 John B. Stetson 13¾ 3.77 3.6 Ward Baking 11¼ 3.03 3.8 Warner Bros. 11¼ 3.02 4.0 West Indies Sugar 23 10.78 2.0 W. Va. Coal & Coke 18 4.88 3.55 W. Va. Pulp & Paper...
...centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...
Grateful parishioners often send him presents-sometimes even new cars. Once, when given a Chris-Craft speedboat, he decided that it was too far above his station and sold it to buy an outboard, turning the extra money into church work...
...about the "Hoppi-copter" (see cut), which he has been developing in Seattle. It is a helicopter* stripped to essentials: little more than a seat, landing wheels and two horizontal rotors revolving in opposite directions. The power source is a 35 h.p. engine with two opposed cylinders like an outboard motor. According to Mr. Pentecost, "the required blade adjustments to render typical three dimensional helicopter flight have been coordinated into a single control handle placed conveniently in front of the operator...