Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snag Boat. Next Henry Shreve went after other barriers: the snags that imperiled navigation for 1,500 miles. "For years boat owners and settlers who had lost their craft or goods had pleaded with Congress to do something about the driftwood menace. The bewildered statesmen could offer no help. It was considered impossible to dislodge the enormous timbers: trees whose roots had dug deep into the stream bottom . . . were packed down with tons of silt. ..." Shreve disagreed. He had invented a "heavy-timbered, twin-hulled snag boat" to do the job. He wrote the War Department, offering to submit...
This is a whopping victory for the airlines, a defeat for War Secretary Stimson. Less than four months ago the Secretary pounded many a Washington table, demanded that aircraft makers tear down their commercial-plane production lines, concentrate on military craft...
Rosendahl had had to labor long & hard. An eloquent defense of LTA (What About the Airship?), countless speeches and articles had affirmed his unshaken faith in the craft that had often shaken the faith of U.S. airmen...
...ground that they must protect their members from technological unemployment. But there is more than a suspicion that A.F. of L. leaders, in many cases, are more concerned about their own jobs than their men's. A shift in methods might mean the end of a craft, the collapse of a union, the disintegration of a dues-paying membership...
Before the launchings (and presumably in answer to the production blast of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd last month) the Navy recapitulated: In the first eight months of 1941, it had laid the keels of 436 craft, launched 249, placed 213 in service after fitting them...