Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships larger than destroyers were sunk, but twelve cans went to the bottom, 67 others were damaged. Ten battleships, eight big carriers, two light carriers and three escort carriers were hit. And the casualties in men-4,907 killed and missing, 4,824 wounded-were about one-seventh of the Navy's total for the entire...
...Republican side, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg joined in: "I think there should be a ... degree of relief in personal taxes, not only in the confiscatory brackets at the top, but also in the mass brackets at the bottom...
...giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar to a total of 45,000 feet. The mushroom top was even...
...August, the Army & Navy had canceled $12.5 billion in plane contracts, with another $7 billion soon to go. Many a planemaker hoped that a temporary bottom had been reached...
...assigns it simply to lack of ability; where it is silly to thionk of getting a release from a strangling contract; where boredom, frustration and hopelessness conspire against the will until as she says, "all you can hope for is that sooner or later you will hit bottom...." She hit bottom in the appalling Ladies Courageous (TIME, April...