Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. felt that it could afford to turn down an opportunity to make the best aircraft engine that Britain has yet devised. This did not mean that the U.S. already has the best air craft engines in the world- far from it. But it meant that, rightly or wrongly, responsible officials thought the U.S. engines now coming up were so promising that it would be foolish to try experimenting in new fields...
Even shipping lines are potshotting the Seaway. The Atlantic States Shippers Advisory Board claims: 1) only 5% of U.S. ships over 2,000 tons could use the Seaway; 2) only 30% of foreign ships over 2,000 tons could navigate it; 3) only the smallest U.S. Naval craft could...
These are the craft which give the naval air service its long striking arm. Of all types, they offer the greatest threat to the supremacy of surface navies. They are a type which Jack Towers has espoused for years and was able to get the U.S. Navy to accept in quantity only when World War II began...
Gibes & Gusto. Making allowances for inevitable shortages of equipment and for the fact that the maneuver season was just beginning, they saw a realistic, competent job of battle craft...
...sportswriters, the most sentimental members of a notoriously softhearted craft, have blubbered over many a death before. Fortnight ago they had even wept a bit for Max Schmeling, till he turned out to be alive. But last week's outburst was an emotional flood the likes of which few oldtimers could remember. Only attempt to keep his feet in the pool of tears was made by onetime Sportswriter Westbrook ("Old Nasty") Pegler. Wrote he in the New York World-Telegram...