airplane carrier
Americannoun
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He had flown 1,300 hours in 38 different types of airplanes; he had been shot from a catapult; he was one of the first 25 men to operate from the deck of an airplane carrier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its rules: for every enemy battleship sunk by the U.S., the player buys $5 worth of defense stamps, for an airplane carrier $4, cruiser $3, destroyer $2, submarine $1, any other ship 50�.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said gusty, bearded Admiral William Sowden Sims, 17 years before Pearl Harbor: "An airplane carrier . . . is in reality a capital ship of much greater offensive power than any battleship."
From Time Magazine Archive
Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Japanese colony was settled on land carefully chosen—long, level, flat acres which overnight can be turned into an air base for a fleet landed from an airplane carrier or assembled on the spot.
From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.
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