Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser's Coffins. Navy officials do not talk, but Navy crews on the Casablanca told hair-raising tales. From some Kaiser ships came reports like these...
...Maritime Commission gave a contract to Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built anything more elaborate than a Liberty ship, and the Navy was told to keep hands off. While the Navy glowered and went on building its own escort carriers, the new 480-ft., 4,000-ton babies of the Casablanca class began rolling off the Kaiser assembly lines...
...under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...Role. The CVEs helped in the battle of the Atlantic. They fought in the Pacific in calmer seas. Though they were built to be expendable, only two were lost, both to enemy action; the Kaiser-built Liscome Bay, at Makin, late in 1943; the C-3 converted Block Island, in the Atlantic...
Snorted Mr. Kaiser: "I am surprised that Mr. Higgins should be the one to complain." But the Kaiser scouts left New Orleans...