Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press was a new note of apprehension that the Navy was not attacking the U-boat problem with sufficiently imaginative vigor, despite the patrol planes, bombers, blimps and surface craft that are dumping bombs and depth charges wherever an enemy sub is suspected...
...meant more than that, however, for Australia. Such tiny craft are of extremely limited range, as little as 200 miles by U.S. Navy estimates. The obvious conclusion was that the Japanese Navy had a force off Australia's southeast coast, perhaps 1,000 miles farther south than it had penetrated during the Coral Sea engagement. Vital sea routes to the U.S. and New Zealand, as well as Australia's economic heart, were again threatened...
...from the islands to the east. And Australia's defenses were not half so strong as Douglas MacArthur would have liked. But of air strength MacArthur had enough to keep the Jap worried and off balance. He used it, while among the islands to the northeast the U.S. craft prowled, and watched their chance...
Setting out to "get acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...
When the Navy began to order small craft (up to 45 ft.) from inland yards, the Slocums hauled them east to tidewater, made that their principal business. Up to now their biggest headache has been the variety of State restrictions on size and length (TIME. April 6), for most of her loads are outsize and require special permits. ODT's new return-load restrictions are giving her a worse headache; for boats are her specialty, and boats nowadays are all moving towards tidewater, not away from...