Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manpower Boss McNutt does not consider piano tuning a war-essential industry. But in Alaska, where piano tuners are next to nonexistent, an obscure master of this peaceful craft is doing his not inconsiderable bit to help the war effort...
...faces of Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery-faces heavy with power, craft, superhuman responsibility, humanly transfigured by the exhilaration of a great and successful change of rhythm in history...
...Washington the Navy let word leak out that it had reduced all of its fighter-plane production, even that of Long Island's famed Grumman Aircraft (Hellcats and Wildcats). Before long the Navy, pleased at the low losses in small landing craft on the French beachhead, expects to cut back this program, which has had a longtime No. 1 priority...
Defying the unseasonable onshore wind which on two days neared gale force, transports and landing craft filled the Bay of the Seine. Montgomery methodically built up fire power for a "Monty barrage," which was expected to announce his drive inland...
...fifth day, transports made their rendezvous outside the coral reefs of the island, and the landing craft darted in towards the beaches. U.S. soldiers and U.S. marines swarmed ashore at Agingan Point, while Japs who had survived the bombardment bit into them with enfilading fire from automatic weapons, pounded them with mortar shells...