airplane carrier
Americannoun
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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
At last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Mayor James Gifford Newbegin of Tacoma, Wash., had cause last week to be glad he had remembered a statistic about the Navy's 33,000-ton airplane carrier Lexington.
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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