Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: The G.I. Bill of Rights, while practically assuring every veteran a Chris-Craft speed. boat, two cars in every garage, a home in the country, a penthouse, and an egg in his beer, has, in our opinion, failed to deal with a question which is destined to present one of the most controversial issues of the postwar world. To wit: Will the returning G.I. be able to maintain the same balance of power in his home that he enjoyed in the halcyon days, or will the female of the species assert herself and declare the "old order" relegated...
...there was always the sea on the flanks: the Allies could still use the Tyrrhenian or Adriatic for amphibious bypasses of the Gothic Line. The Germans saw the possibility. A DNB broadcaster told the Herrenvolk: there are concentrations of Allied landing craft "in the area of several embarkation points...
Carriers stood off the Bonins to send off aircraft which swooped upon the big, heavily escorted convoy. They sank four cargo ships, three naval escort craft, four barges. Then, for the first time in the new island campaign, U.S. surface ships closed in for the kill with their guns. They sank a large destroyer, a cargo ship, other miscellaneous items of Oikawa's auxiliary navy...
Then the airmen struck again, sank one more escort vessel, two small craft, and fired a light cruiser, which they left burning satisfactorily. U.S. losses: 16 planes, 19 airmen...
Today attack transports, landing craft and auxiliaries, especially tankers, are what the Navy needs most; carriers and cruisers next. These are the vessels used most in current Pacific offensives. The Navy has put antisubmarine craft back to third place, battleships to a poor fourth, and has cut back its submarine-building program. But Admiral Home is worried about manpower shortages, especially in private shipyards, which have a large labor turnover...