Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their systematic, silent war against the shipping which supplied Japan's island conquests, U.S. submarines in the Pacific last week were credited with further success: seven Japanese vessels sunk, six of them merchant ships, one a destroyer. This brought the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom by U.S. submarine action to 168. Also listed were 25 "probables" and 42 vessels damaged...
...desperate Battle of Midway when her dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters roared in with four separate attacks on the big Jap invasion fleet. Eight bombs smashed into the enemy carrier Kaga, three more on the Akagi; additional hits in a later attack, sent both to the bottom. On the same day 17 dive-bombers helped spike the carrier Soryu with six hits and plumped two more on a battleship; the Soryu burned cheerily and slipped beneath the surface with the polite hissing noise characteristic of Japanese etiquette...
...Florey believes some surgical operations might be revised to take advantage of penicillin, tried it in 22 cases of mastoid. Immediately after operation, the incision was stitched up with a small rubber tube running to the bottom of the wound and closed by a spigot. Every six hours the tube was drained and filled with a penicillin solution. After a week the tube was removed. Nineteen of the cases were healed and only three needed any further treatment...
Another attitude concerns bankers. Circumstance, politics and the bankers themselves put the calling for a while on the bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford...
Invisibly Different. Remodeling the Atlanta Journal, he reduced the size of margins at the top and bottom of pages, saving four column-inches per page. He cut comic strip widths, reduced the size of standing headlines over regular features, eliminated white space around classified ad items, made other space-saving reductions. As a result, the Journal now prints in 28 to 30 pages what once filled 32, and is cleaner, smarter appearing. Best thing about the Journal job, Farrar says: it was accomplished invisibly. Readers were not irritated by a drastic difference...