Word: argonauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost: the U.S. Navy's largest submarine, the 14-year-old Argonaut. A giant mine layer, 381 feet long, displacing 2,710 tons, she carried two 6-in. guns, a complement of 102 officers & men. She was the sixth undersea craft which the Navy has admitted losing since the war began...
...Army patrol pilot operating out of New Guinea saw a torpedo from the Argonaut hit a Jap destroyer with a Rabaul-bound convoy. Other destroyers dropped depth charges. Argonaut porpoised, broke the surface at a sharp angle, was shelled in that helpless position till she sank...
...home-grown citizens of Jackson, Calif. this week got shocking news: the fabulous Argonaut gold mine will close down within a month; its 225 miners must look for other jobs. Reason: guns, tanks & ships are not made from gold; WPB has turned down all appeals for needed supplies and equipment...
...Jackson the Argonaut is an institution, a legend, the town's chief claim to a niche in history. Grizzled, bourbon-swigging, pistol-packing prospectors first struck the Argonaut about 1848, were soon whooping it up in the noisy, ramshackle saloons & cafes of nearby Jackson. Broken and empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county...
...historymaker, the Argonaut was also a moneymaker. Deep in the heart of the incredibly rich Mother Lode vein, its 6,000-ft. shafts have carried up over $19,000,000 in gold since 1850. Much of this went to Jackson barkeepers, storekeepers and bawdy-house keepers, helped keep the town going when the expected factories and payrolls never appeared. Now the show is almost over...