Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress dished up $1,800,000,000 last week to build a million more tons of landing craft. Much of the money will be spent for the Navy's newest, the LSM (Landing Ship, Medium...
...looking as all the Navy's landing craft, the LSM may become even more famous than the LST. The LSM has a 34-ft. beam, is some 100 ft. shorter than the 328-ft. LST. As in her bigger sister, two doors in her broad nose open and a ramp drops down for her cargo to roll ashore...
...vast size and power that it is almost a world police force in itself had been built, apparently, by men dissatisfied with their working conditions-practically by transient laborers, if the Navy Yards turnover was at 60%. And even as Donald Nelson worried over the manpower to make landing craft, production of landing craft shot up 35%, in figures reported this week...
Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
...landing-craft program is Acting Secretary Forrestal's biggest worry. He has made recent trips to eight shipyards, exhorting bosses and workers to speed up production. The program is lagging, though not seriously. But, says Jimmy Forrestal, "it's touch & go if we are going to meet the schedule...