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Using Elco
- In the example corpus, elco often appears in combinations such as: the elco, elco boats, elco -footers.
Context around Elco
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elco
- In this selection, "elco" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contracted, five, convert, boats, naval and management stand out and add context to how "elco" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an convert elco instead of and elco boats were. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elco" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elco
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At the time, only the Elco 77-footers had the actual ordnance loadout. (13 words)
Elco boats were found to pound heavily and confirmed previous reports of their discomfort. (14 words)
PT-9 was to serve as the prototype for all the early Elco PT boats. (15 words)
The hull shape of the Elco and Higgins PT boats were similar to the warped "planing hull" found in pleasure boats of the time (and still in use today): a sharp V at the bow softening to a flat bottom at the stern. (43 words)
The accelerometers ranked the boats as follows: First was the Philadelphia Navy Yard PT-8 with the least pounding, Second was the Huckins PT-69, Third was the Higgins PT-6, and last were the Elco 77-footers. (38 words)
Elco Elco and Higgins PT boats, as published in a 1945 training manual The Elco Naval Division boats were the longest of the three types of PT boats built for the Navy used during World War II. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Elco Elco and Higgins PT boats, as published in a 1945 training manual The Elco Naval Division boats were the longest of the three types of PT boats built for the Navy used during World War II.
ELCO Management Co. LLC’s holdings in BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust were worth $418,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
The certificate of mechanic's lien states that ELCO provided labor and materials of $224,673 on the Mid-Coast School of Technology building that opened last month.
After the initial competition, in late 1939, the Navy contracted Elco to build 11 copies of PT-9.
At the time, only the Elco 77-footers had the actual ordnance loadout.
By war's end, more of the Elco convert boats were built (326 in all) than any other type of motor torpedo boat.
Elco boats were found to pound heavily and confirmed previous reports of their discomfort.
Five Elco Boats were manufactured in knock-down kit form and sent to Long Beach Boatworks for assembly on the West Coast as part of an experiment and as a proof of concept.
Her deck house was reconfigured to partially resemble an convert Elco instead of its original Vosper convert configuration.
Of note, the conference strongly recommended that no more Elco 77-footers be ordered until the tests had shown that they were indeed satisfactory.
Of the Elco boats, only three hulls (one restored) are known to exist as of 2016.
Only the British built PT-9 prototype boat brought from England for Elco to examine and copy featured a Merlin.
PT-167 (Elco) was holed through the bow off Bougainville on 5 November 1943, by a torpedo which failed to detonate; the boat remained in action and was repaired the next day.
PT-9 was to serve as the prototype for all the early Elco PT boats.
The accelerometers ranked the boats as follows: First was the Philadelphia Navy Yard PT-8 with the least pounding, Second was the Huckins PT-69, Third was the Higgins PT-6, and last were the Elco 77-footers.
The Elco, Higgins and Huckins companies used varying lightweight techniques of hull construction which included two layers of double diagonal mahogany planking utilizing a glue-impregnated cloth layer between inner and outer planks.
The Higgins 76' (PT-70) and boats of the Elco 77' (PT-20 Class) developed structural failures even under moderate weather conditions prevailing.
The hull shape of the Elco and Higgins PT boats were similar to the warped "planing hull" found in pleasure boats of the time (and still in use today): a sharp V at the bow softening to a flat bottom at the stern.
The other two Elco boats, PT-30 and PT 23 (standby boat), followed PT-31, placing before PT-69.
This book has a detailed history of the development of the various Elco boats, with numerous drawings and photos.
Common combinations with elco
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the elco 8×
- elco boats 5×
- elco -footers 3×
- elco elco 2×
- elco and 2×
- elco to 2×