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Word: watercar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned yachts. On board the yachts they held carnivals, debauches. This popular illusion has gone past. It is now possible to buy a 22-foot boat, finished in African mahogany, with an automobile top, side curtains, steering wheel and driving devices, for $2,500. Such a boat is the Watercar, made in four models by the Dodge Co. Or, for a little more, you can get a cruiser from the American Car and Foundry Co., a cruiser as neat as a destroyer, with a cool wind always blowing on its deck and a neat shaving of water peeling away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Boats | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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