Word: watercraft
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Airways along the Pacific Coast are dotted with "service stations" marked by neon-lighted towers-aircraft fueling points erected by Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
...desire for a more serviceable canoe, which has resulted in its attaining its present state of perfection. The application of ingenuity and skill and the constant study of the canoe have ended in the production of as many and varied types of it as of other branches of watercraft ; so that now the purchaser of one must, with so wide a choice, exercise great discretion. The character of the water in which he proposes to cruise and his own physical strength are to be taken into consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large...