Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all. Voyages are slower, owing to the fact that convoys must assume the speed of their slowest members and must steer in zigzag courses. On the average, voyages take twice as long as they did before the war. So these 13,000,000 tons of shipping carry roughly only as much goods as 6,500,000 tons could carry in peacetime...
Since the Nazification of Europe, longtime foes of the South American steer, like Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney and the American National Livestock Association, have switched to approving Army & Navy purchases from Argentina. Administration Senators were determined to knock out the Scrugham amendment this week...
Sail forth! Steer for the deep water only...
...Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there to steer the united Japanese south China Sea Fleet on a southward drive...
...Ohio River captain named Gordon C. Greene doubled his packet fleet by building the Argand. His wife, a country storekeeper's daughter who learned to steer a boat on her honeymoon, took out a master's license, got behind the Argand's wheel, started it splashing up & down the Ohio...