Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...
...spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern. The Navy, always alert for new designs, helped him experiment, started him off with an order of 13. Result: Eureka (patented...
...diplomatic fire last week were similar Allied agreements with Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium. Pre-empted by Britain would be Norway's usual spring exports to Germany of whale oil and her ring. In Denmark's case, British control of the fodder imports needed for Danish dairy products has brought about a tacit under standing with Germany whereby, unless Britons can get their Danish breakfast bacon, Nazis shall go without Danish butter...
Recently "Beachcomber" punned thus: "SMALL PROPHETS AND QUICK RETURNS. There is a rumor that a whale mistook Mme Tabouche of L'Oeuf for a prophet and swallowed her. On finding out its mistake, it released...