Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty backdrop of brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...Wilmington and Long Beach. In August 1941 Alden Roach was upped to the top. He went right on expanding the company in all directions. He cagily hired Captain Harry B. Hird, former commandant of marine construction at Pearl Harbor, had him ready to run the huge consolidated naval-craft plant at Orange...
Little Girls, Big Ships. Already discarded by military airmen is the notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
...very existence is miraculous. At the Mössebergh sanatorium she is recovering from the effects of a mild stroke with a magnificent will, determined to live to see the defeat of the Nazis. She is credited by diplomats with being one of the most brilliant practitioners of her craft of her age. Though never publicized, Kollontay had much to do with the Finnish-Russian peace of 1940. With her superb intelligence and with her charm, she helps the Scandinavian countries to deal with the Kremlin enigma...
...narrow craft unionism and autocracy of the A.F. of L. stood in his way. In 1935 he joined his miners with seven other big A.F. of L. unions to form C.I.O., soon led them out of the Federation...