Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their craft was an eggshell hull, without spars or sails or engine, riding the gale-lashed sea. She was, you might say, like a fishing trawler with never a thing in or on her. The storm was sweeping down from the northwest and snow mingled with the icy, driven spray, blotting out the weak northern...
...February 1941 the Navy ordered Alligators worth over $3,000,000. Their job: to haul men, munitions and supplies from battleships and transports on to enemy shores, thus speed and simplify dangerous invasion jobs. Donald looked around for a manufacturer, finally handed the order to nearby Food Machinery Corp. (spray pumps, fruit washers, etc.), which normally makes nothing more deadly than a peach pitter, but had made parts for Roebling's experimental models. Today Food Machinery alone has orders for over $50,000,000 worth of Alligators, and hundreds of others are being made by Borg-Warner, Graham-Paige...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
Captain Adair nodded, ducked to miss a bath of chilling spray...