Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travel. ODT refuses to guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
...second Nazi submarine, the 600-ton U-977, last week popped up off the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. She showed the swastika flag, startled a lonely fisherman. Then Argentine war craft mothered her into port. Cracked Montevideo's El Diario: "It is surprising, this marked preference of Nazi vessels for Argentina...
...warships (including landing craft), 5,200 merchant vessels...
...confidently say to himself, "I am not sick." But the stomach is moving around in a manner which on land would indicate that there is actual illness. Then he should say to his subjective mind, "I am aware of an unusual motion, but it is the motion of the craft; do not let that suggest you into thinking it is the food, which I know to be perfect...
...three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...