Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this week the Allied air forces shot down a two-day total of 96 planes. The craft, mostly huge transports, were engaged in running a ferry service between Sicily and Tunisia. No one seemed to know whether the planes were carrying power to or from Tunisia. Paris radio said to, Cairo sources said from. It was possible that Kesselring had already begun the exit...
...Rusk, now head of the Army Air Forces' reconditioning program, laid out the schooling with courses in chemical warfare, camouflage, radio, model aircraft building, mathematics and a special course for illiterate soldiers. At Dale Mabry Field in Florida, convalescents' courses range from identification of Japanese air craft to Arctic warfare. Officers, their wives, Red Cross workers and college professors lecture on such subjects as "Our Latin American Neighbors" and "How to Keep in Fighting Trim in Africa." The Army has made the happy discovery that such work not only makes better and wiser men; it also shortens convalescence...
These words uttered, Eleanor Roosevelt smacked a champagne bottle last week against the nose of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay. Thousands (30) cheered as the flat-topped craft slid into the chill waters of the Columbia River at Vancouver, Wash. The first of many small aircraft carriers which fabulous Henry Kaiser is building had been launched. On neighboring ways sisters of the Alazon Bay, converted from merchant design, stood abuilding. Bald Henry Kaiser promised to slide out three to six each month...
Last week there was ample evidence that the U.S. services are working with might & main to get out faster dive-bombers, thus overcome the handicap of low speed (199 m.p.h.) which has made the Stuka a sitting duck for fighter craft and flak batteries...
...last week six top aircraft executives of the East-including Guy Vaughan of Curtiss-Wright, Glenn Martin of Martin, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft-packed their bags and entrained for California. They went West to meet Pacific Coast producers and set up a new National Air craft War Production Council. Aim: to help cut production red tape for the whole airplane industry...