Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he: the U.S. is suffering from "overoptimism [about] an early ending of the war. . . . This sentiment is positively dangerous" because workers are leaving essential industries for jobs with a peacetime future. An additional 350,000 male workers are still needed in crucial industries (foundries, rubber, ship repair, landing-craft production). McNutt's new pronouncement thus explained everything except his own previous optimism...
...British Admiralty announced that 3,700 volunteers had answered its call for yachtsmen and small-boat handlers. The boatmen, many of them veterans of the incredible flotilla that saved the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, are manning small craft in the harbors. Like other British civilians, they are waiting; but they will not have to wait quite so long...
Tracers flamed into the trees and bamboo thickets beyond the sand. Suddenly they stopped, and the Liberators poured over, bombing and laying down smoke. Small landing craft and barges zigzagged through the surf to land infantry...
...include planes destroyed on the ground? Does it employ tactics saving the sure "kill" for the top officers of the squadrons? Of one thing airmen were certain: very few men anywhere could stand the nervous strain of enough air battles for a bag of 177 or even 116 enemy craft...
Ways of Death. Germany's Essener National Zeitung printed an indignant article about Norwegians who had been schooled in sabotage by the British Intelligence Service in Britain, returned to their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death...