Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While recognizing the propriety and necessity of the legally constituted authorities in the naval service being the sole judges of the sufficiency of the reasons actuating all orders to naval craft, and further recognizing that the practice of ordering movements of naval vessels for the purpose of complying with public requests is in accord with long-established custom, it is considered that such movements should be limited to essentially naval and military operations in so far as possible, especially in the case of new and experimental types...
...arrived at after full and careful consideration by the most expert officers of the Navy in the operation and design of rigid airships, and do not in any way involve negligence or culpability." Responsibility for the Accident: "It may be accepted in the case of the loss of any craft at a certain place at a certain time that any change of action on the part of any individual directly or indirectly connected with the movement of such craft might have avoided such loss. In this sense, and in this sense only, can allegations of direct or indirect individual responsibility...
...died last week in Washington. Most of his paintings are unsalable because they are plastered to public buildings or warships, but even were they salable there would be no fluttering of art dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers...
...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...
...Broderick organized a company to buy liquor and ship it-not to U. S. shores but as close thereto as the twelve-mile limit allowed. The idea was not, so the Baronet asserted, to act as a bootlegger. Only it so happened that a craft lying off shore laden with Scotch and other forbidden liquors would soon find buyers swarming towards it. Once his merchandise was sold-for cash-Sir Broderick would cease to be interested in its further history. Perhaps it entered the U. S. Perhaps not. He really could not say. But he sent out circulars inviting...