Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Midway's narrow channel U.S. submarines and light craft can slip for refueling and minor repairs...
...whip-smart Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was not releasing his story for U.S consumption. The Craft in Europe has very different implications from its meaning in Britain and the U.S. In many countries the Masons have been considered for centuries a highly subversive, clandestine group, or at least a tight, potent, political unit, which in some nations (like France) has for years dominated the Government from behind the scenes...
...defenses of the Philippines have been split under several commands. Keystone of Philippine defense are the U.S. regulars and the Philippine Scouts. Few months ago these pros totaled some 10,000. But this year, while the Navy has built up its Asiatic Fleet with patrol bombers, submarines, surface craft, the Army has not been idle. Army strength in the Philippines today is a military secret...
Afternoon's Work. One day last week R.A.F. reconnaissance craft brought in some very interesting pictures. They showed the harbor of Rotterdam ripe with an unprecedented crop of ships. The pictures were so interesting that they went straight to Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., known as Peter. Peter Portal looked and took them straight to the War Cabinet, for the special perusal of Winston Churchill and Secretary of State for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair. All agreed-give these ships the business...
...Senate's Naval Affairs Committee sent for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, to tell them true. Rosy-jowled, freckle-fisted Colonel Knox, who likes to think of himself as a bluff character, two days before had hinted that the U.S. Navy was under orders to attack "hostile craft" on sight in the Atlantic...