Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leros were desperate. Hemmed in by Germans landing from the sea, bombed and strafed by Germans commanding the air, the British defended their lonely little island in the eastern Aegean until they were slow with exhaustion. Their Italian co-belligerents fought with nontraditional bravery. A few audacious British naval craft helped a little. Long-range R.A.F. fighters helped but not enough, from their too-distant bases...
...hobby-craft shop where eight-to-16-year-olds learn how to handle wood, paint, metals, make model aircraft...
...before dawn, hundreds of steam and motor boats crept out over the star-sprinkled swells of the upper Great Lakes. They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets. The craft drifted silently to a stop in the icy, crystal water...
Then in 1932 Transcontinental & Western Airlines came to Douglas with a proposition: they needed a new two-motored passenger plane that would outfly, out-carry and "outeverything" every plane in the commercial air. Douglas had kept strictly to military craft because Uncle Sam's credit was good. Would he break this rule for T.W.A.? In a week the designs were whipped out. The plane turned the aviation world upside down, with Douglas on top. The plane was the DC-1, the first of the famed broad-winged DCs that eventually carried 95% of all U.S. air traffic...
...manpower problem that has graveled all planemakers. The turnover of Douglas workers actually runs as high as 85% in a year, about average for the Southern California industry. But some how, through his genius for organization and efficiency, Douglas has kept production up without flagging. In the air craft industry, with its outstanding man power problems at Ford's Willow Run and Boeing's Seattle plants, this is a sensational achievement. Vice President Conant's explanation for the phenomenon: "We have had good airplanes. We didn't have to stop and swallow any debacles." Douglas...