Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black and Ewing don't know exactly where they are going when their junk is finished. That will depend upon the sailing qualities of their craft (Chinese Junks weather typhoons, says Black). If the first Chinese Junk ever to be built in Cambridge is not very seaworthy, it will still look pretty on the Charles. If it is a real sailor, maybe they will sail away and startle fishing captains on Brown's Bank...
...fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...
...yielded in the face of an overwhelming assault. But the Visayans and Luzon, with 95% of the Philippines' population (16,356,000) and industry, form a tactical unit. The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader...
Meanwhile. in Detroit, Fordmen plugged on with the production of parts for Consolidated bombers (TIME, Feb. 3), tested a new Ford-designed 1,500-h.p. air craft engine, saw workmen finishing the building where Ford will turn out 4,500 2,000-h.p. P. & W. engines for bombers, beginning early in the summer...
...Chinese frontier; Japanese inspectors at all Indo-Chinese customs houses ; a naval base at strategic Camranh Bay and defense concessions at Saigon; air bases throughout Indo-China. From Thailand she demanded a naval base in the Gulf of Siam for a fleet of 15 battleships, cruisers and auxiliary craft. Unless the terms were accepted on the spot, it was intimated, naval units would go into action and invasion of both countries would follow. The delegates signed...