Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following an announcement by her owners last week that this strange old craft was long overdue at sea, Berlin announced this week that she had been "sunk by the German Navy"-probably by a surface raider-and that her passengers and crew were "safe and well cared for in German-occupied territory." Presumably the 322 passengers and crew had been landed at a French port. When and where the sinking occurred was not indicated...
...Lease use, OPM scooped 30 big transport planes from the fields, left the lines with about 360 planes-hardly enough to cope with the soaring traffic curve.* For the duration, the lines are resigned to being "frozen"-moderate schedule increases; passenger priorities if planes get too crowded; few new craft; few-if any-improved models...
Through these tactics it became necessary to tack down wind in order to reach the leeward mark, and while the Tech skipper was figuring out problems of aerodynamic import on his calibrated sliderule, the great Miller with consummate ease jibed his craft three times, but on each occasion his machinations bailed and Tech ran off with the "championship...
...production to defend our own coast cities. We would have to at once increase our protections for the Pacific Coast and our island possessions. . . . We would have to hold merchant ships in reserve to carry troops to protect them. . . . We would have to use our light naval craft to convoy and protect our own sea lanes, especially in the Pacific...
Boarding her craft upstream at the Cambridge Club, the Bunnies' new coxswain, Patty David of Dallas, successfully piloted her charges, all of them hanging at the catch, past a cheering Weld Boathouse float and disappeared downstream in the direction of Peter Black's Chinese Junk...