Word: skiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio). The eye glides like a skiff across the black, lurching waters of a New England harbor. The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah. And on the screen the dreadful, faintly ludicrous enginery of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest lurches, and begins...
...trend toward new materials and new construction methods was best shown in small boats. On hand were: unsinkable aluminum "Air Skiff" dinghies made by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (price: $250 & up); Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.'s new aluminum dinghy, along with its older aluminum canoe; magnesium rowboats of the Dow Chemical...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...
...blood, 700 convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
...Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas preaching agricultural betterment to the families of the Big Thicket. In 1933 he put on a personal promotion campaign for canalization of the Trinity by piloting a skiff from Dallas to the Chicago World's Fair. The skiff tied into a Mississippi tow going north from New Orleans. Three or four days out, according to river bargemen, the cook complained to the captain that the Commodore ate too much. The captain ordered the Commodore listed as "four guests...