Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarine S-4 went to the bottom, drowned 40 men (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). To avert such catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...
...price slump did not daunt Mr. Legge. Sure that rock bottom had been hit, he declared: "If I were a miller, I'd want my tanks filled to capacity at present prices."* He thought if planters would announce agreement to a reduction program, prices would immediately start upward. His first stop was at Indianapolis to confer with growers of winter wheat. Thence his itinerary would take him through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington...
...speak not as a Democrat but as one inspired. We are just as near the economic bottom as a country can go. ... A prominent Republican came to me in Washington about present conditions. I told him to go back to President Hoover, sit down in his office and tell the President he could thank God the depression came in the middle of his term. For as sure as fate in 1932 the chimneys will be smoking, the farmers will be getting good crops that will bring them good prices and Mr. Hoover will be reelected. . . . I don't approve...
...ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered...
...each air tank was posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss...