Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craft were Philippine "Q-boats," 65-foot torpedo carriers which Douglas MacArthur had ordered years before, when he first became the Commonwealth's Field Marshal. The four boats should have met before dawn, then hidden near the shore until the next night. But the Q-boats had taken a beating since Dec. 7 and their tired engines could not do their rated 39 knots. The two parties had to risk a daylight voyage and did not meet until nearly noon...
Vichy noted nervously that 1,500 British men between 18 and 50 were living on the French Moroccan coast near the naval base of Casablanca. There lay Vichy's great battleship, Jean Bart, and 40-odd smaller craft that Adolf Hitler would like either to use himself or to have used for Axis purposes under Vichy's flag. Last week Vichy ordered British on the French Moroccan coast to move inland...
...William Bligh and 18 men, set adrift in a 23-foot boat by the mutinied crew of H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, navigated 3,600 miles of open seas to Timor, Dutch East Indies. But Bligh had a small supply of food, water, navigation instruments and a much more seaworthy craft...
...after British capital had enjoyed a brief post-war Indian industrial boom, the crash came and tariffs were readjusted to protect Britain. World War II has once again brought British encouragement of Indian industry. Even so, Indians have charged Britain with discrimination against Indian firms wishing to build air craft, ships and automobiles...
...that in the past Math 2 plus the declining Army physical minimum has enrolled men as cadet meteorologists, and that the probability of future repetition is excellent? Or that the chances are better than excellent that two math courses and two physics courses will send even Classics concentrators to Craft and the Signal Corps? Such probabilities constitute the most valuable information a student can posses. It doesn't take an elaborate office and a filing cabinet to find out that nothing is certain...