Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese battleship program may include eight and possibly twelve such craft." Trusting the British to police the Atlantic for them, the U. S. Navy plans and builds to be ready for Japan in the Pacific. Since Japan, with eight to twelve new 45,000 tonners added to its present ten modern battleships, could beat the U. S. Navy...
Under such conditions sea battle was bound to be diffuse. In the usual foul weather up & down the Scandinavian coast, the first problem of Britain's Navy was to find the enemy, to avoid his mines and submarines, to brush aside his air craft and come to grips, here, there, anywhere with detachments of the German Fleet and its convoys...
...advantages of cooperatives were many. They fitted much better than huge plants into the ancient Chinese tradition of household craft industry. The units were mobile, easily disguised, easily housed, and were not, like big factories, obvious targets for Japanese bombers...
...Japanese have restrained themselves from taking the Settlement by force and have tried only political graft and craft. Each time they fail they want the area more. Last week they failed again...
...Received from Mary Norton's Labor Committee four compromise Wagner Act amendments: 1) to increase NLRB from three to five members, depriving Chairman J. Warren Madden and Member Edwin S. Smith of majority control; 2) to require NLRB to certify craft unions where a majority of affected workers so desire (thus pleasing A. F. of L., displeasing C. I. 0.); 3) to write into law the present NLRB practice which allows employers to petition for Board elections to settle rows between opposing unions; 4) to leave bargaining contracts in force for at least a year after they are signed...