Word: clangor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little destroyer lurched as her helm was put over and the engine-room annunciator called for full speed ahead. Her alarm gongs clanged "General Quarters." Before the clangor had subsided, the men off watch-tin-helmeted officers, sailors, messboys-had reached their stations...
This week, at a quiet sheriff's sale in Philadelphia where the new company was the only bidder, the oldest shipyard in America changed hands. With many a minor financial detail yet to be unraveled, the clangor of riveting tools on the Delaware was still weeks away. But Cramp's already had a firm Navy promise for $100,000,000 in orders for cruisers...
Naval warfare on the high seas, on the broad Atlantic and Pacific, is not warfare in landlocked fjords. Trust your fleet." Echoing the Secretary's words was the clangor in U. S. shipyards last week. On the ways, in the mold lofts, some $750,000,000 worth of warships were building -approximately 80 additions to the growing U. S. Navy, now neck & neck with Great Britain in the race for world naval supremacy. Of these new vessels, eight were battleships, two aircraft carriers...