Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...
...torpedo tubes. Fueled and armed, they could cruise up to 15,000 miles for six to eight weeks, had enough torpedoes to sink at least half a dozen ships, ammunition for their deck guns to take care of more if they found stragglers who could be sent to the bottom by shell fire...
...Chicago, 500 dealers reflect the same gloom. From the January high, when dealers had a 143-day supply on hand, less than a 60-day supply remains, 40% down from a year ago. On the West Coast, dealers have scraped through the bottom of the barrel. Throughout the country, ancient jalopies, hardly worth a junk price of $10 a few months ago, move quickly at $50 and up. Also setting established dealers to biting their nails are the number of "clean deals" (without trade-ins). The clean deal rate, normally 10 to 15% of sales, has soared...
...score of 12 to 9 had been piled up. This win places Class D in a favored position to win the first round of the senior games in view of the fact that it has only to face Class A which is at the present time resting on the bottom of the pile having lost all of its games...
...Electrical charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...