Word: cramp
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...shouting salesmen Vag smiled in triumph. The years were telling. Never before had his pen retained its flourish to the last of these interminable signatures; never before had he strutted so jauntily through the crowd, shoving Coop agents aside with arm free of the dreaded writers' cramp. He grinned broadly when he remembered the look of dismay which had covered the faces of the members of the War Service committee when he had handed them back their Questionnaire, blank and neatly torn through the middle. He'd done his bit: the first three hours of an ARP course. What more...
Quite naturally, the presence of hordes of should-be Yardlings will put the cramp on the capacity of the Houses. Many suites that have for years been luxurious singles will now serve two persons; doubles will be augmented to triples, and so on (within reason...
That simple, natural, excusable national bias, combined with national censorship, would of necessity cramp your style, I had no doubt. And I felt sorrowfully reluctant to read a TIME relegated to propaganda, however compulsorily. So, immense credit is due you for stating honestly to your readers your exact position with regard to the news...
...smashed a bottle on a prow. The Maritime Commission at year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters...
...Navy needed all the shipyard space it could find for the 17 battleships, 48 cruisers, 166 destroyers on its construction schedule. The measure of the Navy's need was the fact that cruisers take 32 to 33 months to build. Cramp's will be in shape to begin laying keels next August, will need 18 months to complete its reconditioning...