Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against these still remote possibilities, Admiral Sadler told what the Navy is doing to extend its Pacific defenses: four bases for patrol seaplanes, also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in a twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop...
Preparing for an audience of 300 reporters to be present, the shipbuilders expect to be asked by the government to take several defense contracts for their type of craft...
...ship a candidate is trained in the practical conduct of a craft's operation. He attends a formal series of lectures on gunnery, navigation, engineering, and seamanship. Mastering these fundamentals, he puts his knowledge to practice and gains actual experience...
...from Lars Anderson or Cottage Farm Bridge. For this reason, the boat would be invaluable to the invaders of Britain because they would be able to pass unmolested under the bridge at Scapa Flow. To foil German agents desirous of the construction plans, the designers have built their revolutionary craft without plans according to Chinese custom and Bernie Warner...
They wrote like two sage old Romans from twin centers of the later empire. Their interest was in philosophy, literature, in the arcana of their craft, in their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make...