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...trying to sell boats. In Springfield, Mo., another tournament bass-fishing legend, Johnny Morris, had established a mail-order company called Bass Pro to sell lures. Then, in 1978, Morris started a company called Tracker Marine that sold fully rigged bass boats (boat, motor, range finder, trolling motor, trailer, etc.) on a one-stop basis. Morris had opened a retail store on the site principally to give fishermen something to do when they came to Springfield to pick up their boats. In 1981, Morris changed outdoor retailing by establishing a combination sporting-goods store, museum and boat dealership that became...
...long stretch of driving from New Orleans ended two days later, in Memphis. We had visited a plantation in Louisiana’s swampland, passed dozens of trailer homes, left behind many stalks of corn, and checked another state off the map. Memphis was frozen in a traffic jam, but there it was: urban, alive...
...Mobile homes don't fare well, do they?" says Lykins, as they pass what appears to have been an abondoned trailer that has been wrecked and tossed on its side. Around the corner, Bond stops the big white Chevy 2500HD pickup again. A tree has crushed the roof of a good-sized bungalow, easily enough damage to have incapacitated anyone inside. "We got cars" in the driveway, he says. "We better do a check," says Lykins. The trio gets out to search, forcing their way in through the front door with a Haligan, a classic fireman's tool that resembles...
Congress has allocated enough money to purchase almost 300,000 trailers, 18,000 of which have already been delivered to victims of the storm. Still, few people in the industry think it can come up with anywhere near that many units in the next few months. Ed Unger, director of operations at Tom Raper RVs in Richmond, Ind., says it took about a week on e-mail to complete a $15 million to $20 million contract to provide from 1,000 to 2,000 trailers. Under FEMA guidelines, he'll have to wait until all the trailers are delivered down...
...responsibility, an acknowledgement of failure, a promise to do better, and an acknowledgement of race. It was far better than anything that's been said to date. But the details of Bush's speech are surely going to be controversial. The federal government still seems determined to build trailer cities instead of providing housing vouchers. Bush promised that the feds would rebuild the "great majority" of the "public infrastructure." But what of the houses that were lost that will not be covered by insurance? And there was no talk of rebuilding the Louisiana coastline, the best natural buffer against another...