Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this last-chance gamble Hitler has thrown many of his still vast resources. From the inland industrial centers of the Ruhr he can spawn his raiders and send them across the world. The biggest craft are launched into the Baltic and the North Sea. Smaller craft can be floated through river and canal arteries across the face of France, spewed out into the English Channel through the Seine, into the Mediterranean through the Saone-Rhone Rivers, into the Bay of Biscay through the Loire River...
...Canada has built and put in operation some 500 warships, most of them escort craft which are doing nearly half the Atlantic convoy work...
Best evidence that shipping is not yet seriously handicapping the Japanese is the fact that they have plenty of tankers. This is a fuel war, yet the Japs have enough tankers to use them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
...carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
Until it got racks and sights, CAP was chiefly effective in locating submarines for the big-game hunters in bombing planes and surface craft. CAPmen would radio a sub's location, wait for the nearest craft with slugging power...