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...Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River in my outboard motor boat...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

Discontinuing sectional and national championship regattas, the National Outboard Association last week ruled that any outboard motorboat speed records made between now and the time Hitler is "beached" will be unofficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...latest sporting event which World War II has knocked out is the world's toughest outboard motorboat race: the annual May marathon down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan (136 miles). Cause: the Eastern Seaboard's new gasoline regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Latest Casualty | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Most of the 70-odd entrants had long ago laid in their supply of special racing fuel, but officials of the Middle Atlantic Outboard Association last week agreed that use of the gas would be a violation of the spirit of the Government edict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Latest Casualty | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...shallow draft (eleven ft.) was a feature. But her four propellers, sticking out under her bottom on vertical shafts, like outboard motors, increased her actual draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Little Stinker | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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