Iceberg: Gold Cup hydroplane and more

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It was a strange sight indeed to see the ungainly hull skipping over the waves like a Gold Cup hydroplane.

The APBA Gold Cup is a hydroplane boat race and is the second official race of the 2012 H1 Unlimited season.

History
The Gold Cup is the oldest active trophy in all of motorsports. The trophy was first awarded in 1904. Hydroplane racing became a tradition in Detroit when designer Christopher Columbus Smith (of the Chris-Craft boat company) built a Detroit-based boat that would crack the 60 miles-per-hour speed barrier, capturing the Gold Cup in 1915.

Sandecker's mind clicked like a Burroughs adding machine.

The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, Burroughs also produced related equipment as well, including typewriters and printers.

In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

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The "comedy" scene with Sandecker's suddenly accelerating to cause her to fall with 3 cups of coffee. Sandecker thinks its menopause, Pitt says, "Women rarely offer an explanation."

Slap 'em both!

he checked the old single-hose US Diver's Deepstar regulator.

U.S. Divers is the sporting goods division of Aqua Lung America, makers of scuba diving equipment.
They were the first firm in the United States to make Cousteau-type aqualungs, in 1951 or earlier. They were one of the five original American diving gear makers — U.S. Divers, Healthways, Voit, Dacor, Swimaster.

(This message forum discusses vintage scuba equipment, makes for interesting reading.
http://vintagescuba.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=2596&page=1#19480)