Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Narrows of New York Harbor one drizzly morning this week stood a hulking grey battleship. Convoyed by Coast Guard craft, she cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...British destroyers-of which there must have been at least two divisions, eight craft-cut the sea up with torpedoes. Most of the destroyers carried eight torpedoes. The Havock, Captain Watkins, which gave a good account of herself at Narvik, signaled the flagship: "I am hanging onto the stern of the Pola. Shall I board her or blow her stern off with depth charges? Haven't any torpedoes left." But another destroyer got the Pola...
...Admiral Darlan of France had given out a fat sheaf of statistics on steady French cargo traffic through the British blockade in the Mediterranean. While the British had sunk seven French food ships, said Admiral Darlan, they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut oil; 135,000 tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa...
Last week the Navy got a 1941 model Helldiver, a slick, fat-bodied monoplane that it designated XSB2C-I. Proudly announced by Curtiss-Wright Corp., the new plane is another of the Navy's new fighting craft sleekly built around a superpower, air-cooled engine-a 1,700-horse-power Wright Double-Row Cyclone. Curtiss-Wright announced that XSB2C-I is 100 miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers...
...gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know he's no fake, as some so-called primitives are. He's to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...