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Word: craft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winners in the University Sculling Championships which were held on the Charles May 20 will receive small wood and cloth models of the craft the rowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Sculls Winners to Be Awarded Model Boat Prizes | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Three years ago Chan Tze-ming and Wang Chi-fu signed on in Chefoo, China, with 18 other Chinese, to sail the Kwang Yuan. The crew discovered that the "Chinese" company which had bought the craft had placed aboard three Japanese officers, learned in San Francisco the Kwang Yuan was to carry 2,100 tons of scrap iron to an Osaka (Japanese) munitions factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Becalmed | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Roosevelt his $200,000,000 for new air craft and munitions production without strings, or tell him just how to spend the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...race for new lines along the Maas and Moselle, three Allied Armies protected overhead by fighter craft and on the ground by anti-aircraft guns spotted along the roads, started from bases along the Belgian border. The French IX Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Hitler's Hour | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...twelve years. In its big, greasy, snarled James River yard (eight ways) last week $180,000,000 worth of ships were building: U. S. Lines' 24,800-ton America, largest U. S. liner ever built; the battleship Indiana and the aircraft carrier Hornet; assorted naval and merchant craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Billion-Dollar Feast | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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