Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...
Since the days of the Conquistadors Mexicans had heard cries in the night from that haunted spot near Taxco. They called the 20-ft.-wide hole in the ground the Devil's Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
...rubber conservation conference of 2,000 tire dealers in Manhattan. His unstretchable rubber facts: U.S. passenger-tire stocks, new & used, shrank from 14,400,000 last January to 4,200,000 on Sept. 1. To assure adequate distribution, the U.S. cannot permit stocks to fall below this rock-bottom level. Thus it can no longer dip into the stockpile which kept the U.S. rolling for two years. From now on, civilian tire needs must be supplied from new tire manufacture. Estimated needs for the last four months of this year: 9,400,000. Estimated synthetic-tire production...
What More Do You Want? RKO's newly installed President Charles Koerner saved the day. At considerable risk he scraped the bottom of the RKO barrel to finance the film. But the box-office response immediately vindicated Ed Golden's original hunch which he used in his sales talk with uninterested Hollywood: "Here's a picture that's got real exploitation value. It's got sterilization. It's got a lethal chamber. It's got kids. What more do you want...
Here is a man who did an outstanding job in the political maelstrom of Washington; a man who has worked up from the bottom to the successful head of one of our largest enterprises-the Union Pacific Railroad; a man who knows what it means to "make a dollar." . . . Surely such a one on the record of his past performances should appeal not only to Labor and Management, but to the great bulk of the American public. And as a fighting man he should have a great appeal to our armed forces...