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...oldtime boatbuilders with a completely new postwar line was the Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: What, No Dreamboats? | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...little before 11 o'clock in the still hot morning, an elderly Western Union messenger climbed the steps to the red-bricked sun porch of a bungalow in Tonawanda, N.Y., and pressed the bell. Mrs. Michael C. Niland was busy with the housework when she heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Stumpy's Boys | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...like story came from the town of Tonawanda, N.Y., where the U.S. Government has been backing and filling over a 1,200-house project (for workers at Curtiss-Wright and Buffalo Arms) for more than a year. Main stumbling block was that water, sewage and incinerator facilities were scarcely adequate to serve Tonawanda even before it was glutted with war workers, and the town was willing and able to pay only about one-quarter of the $488,000 estimated cost of enlarging them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Scandals | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Parker. In North Tonawanda, N.Y., Conductor Maurice J. Mahoney was fined $10 for parking overtime. He left a freight train on a crossing for half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...will do plenty of fighting before the snow flies. From the Curtiss-Wright plant at Buffalo, better than 250 a month are coming off the line, complete to the last machine gun. They start to grow in an older and smaller (827,000 sq. ft.) plant across town at Tonawanda where fuselages are built, engines and armor are installed. At the new airport plant wings and landing gear are added before they are flown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kittihawk | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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