Word: draughting
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...Forced Draught. Brazil has other worries. Her whole economy has been blown to white heat by the forced draught of war. Long dependent on raw material exports, and plagued by overproduction, Brazilians know that their wartime prosperity is largely a result of cooperation with the U.S. They hope that this cooperation will continue. But they cannot be sure...
...example, the Long Island is the only U.S. railroad now using double-decker coaches (it has three, low-slung to slide into tunnels); White Corp. recommended construction of a whole new fleet of them. Other medicine: electrification of 141 additional miles of line, improved riding comfort through installation of draught-proof windows, better car ventilators and lights, seats shaped to fit the human form, and heavier ballasted roadbed; in short, all the things other railroads have. The cost: $30 million...
...have relatives at the front in this war. I want them backed up and "generaled" a whole lot better than the present regime has done. So for Senator I wanted a young man who would jab the coals, shake the grate, open the draught and get the fires of action to roaring in this war. Mr. Norris, over 80 and always talking about retiring, didn't seem to be that man. We are proud of his record, but this is a new fight...
Cecil Brown parted reluctantly from a brand-new pair of shoes, jumped into the oily water and swam hard to avoid the down-draught of the huge vessel as she turned on her beam ends, lifted her ugly stern underparts, and sank. From the water he saw the Wales, torpedoed and afire, slowly go down...
...Shreve did not believe the deep-draught New Orleans would long ride over the Mississippi snags. And could she travel upstream against the current? Even Fulton had his doubts. He wrote: "I do not see by what means a boat containing 100 tons of merchandise can be driven six miles an hour in still water. . . ." He offered $100,000 for the patent on a boat that could...