Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speedboat for as little as $307, can build itself a 20-ft. cabin cruiser for less than $3,000 v. the $5,000 (and up) price of a similar boat a few years ago. The cranky outboard motor of yesteryear now comes with a pushbutton starter and plenty of horsepower. Once a 25-h.p. outboard was considered big enough for any occasion. Today, Evinrude, Johnson, Scott-Atwater have engines as big as 40 h.p.; Mercury Outboard even has a mammoth six-cylinder, 60-h.p. outboard in production, and predicts that 100-h.p. outboards will soon be on the market...
There seems little need for him to run the mile, as the English have two other runners who have bested 4:10 Crimson freshman Ed Martin along with the varsity's Phil Williams, a doubtful starter, will try to match O-C's power. Reider and Benjamin will handle the two-mile...
...Middies wasted little time forging ahead, reaching Crimson starter Dave Brigham for four hits and two runs in the first. They added another in the third to lead...
Meanwhile, the Dartmouth freshmen pinned an 18-2 defeat on the Yardlings. Starter Dave Kipp was shelled from the mound early by the heavy-hitting Green batsmen, and his successors, Bill Cunningham and Jim Dineen, had little more success in stemming the tide...
...starter, Phillips blocked Young and other stockholders in his Alleghany Corp. from exchanging $40 million in 5½% preferred stock, on which dividends were in arrears, for new 6% convertible stock on which Young and the shareholders could start drawing dividends. Then Phillips won a lower court decision holding that Alleghany Corp. should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, not the Interstate Commerce Commission. ICC had allowed Young to use the Alleghany Corp. in his fight for the Central in ways that the stricter SEC rules would have forbidden...