Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrial v. Craft? No. A. F. of L has 29 semi-industrial unions and 19 trade unions. C. I. O. has six semi-industrial and four trade unions. The jurisdictional fight that brought about the split has become meaningless...
...victory the Italians mentioned consisted of the first action during the war of M. A. S.-motoscafi, anti-sommergibile, "motor boats against submarines." An Italian specialty, these darting little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes...
...with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British sailors to go aboard. Then they weighed again, and made out to sea. There, under the Stars & Stripes, gob showed tar how to run the little knifelike craft...
...finally, from both north and south, on Singapore. Netherlands Sumatra and Java would be the first really tough nuts to crack. The naval and air base at Surabaya is sheltered by Madura Island, and both approaches are mined. The Netherlands East Indies Squadron consists of close to 100 surface craft, and although the waters are so clear that submarines might as well be in fishbowls except at night, there are over 18 modern submarines based on Surabaya. If the Japanese should attempt a landing, the Dutch can muster some 360 planes and a moderately well-trained army...
parried all forms of attack successfully by day, seeming even to invite the Luftwaffe in over the land so that casualties would fall on British soil. Combats took place mostly at out-of -sight altitudes. According to British claims, the ratio of German craft shot down to British craft lost fell lower than two-to-one (25-10-15) during the week, then rose again toward week's end to 63-10-22 and 85-10-37 as the Ger mans became more numerous on bright days with scattered clouds...