Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...
...Navy announced tonight that the 5,100-ton Brazilian liner Cayru was sent is the bottom Sunday night and that 53 cow members and six passengers still are missing...
...seemed certain that Lieut. Roland G. Sauinier would get a medal soon, or that the infuriated Jap would sacrifice scores of men to kill him. Bullets so far have nicked Sauinier "on the bottom of an elbow" and have "clipped holes" in his pants. Undismayed, the Lieutenant breaks the daily monotony by shouting across foxholes and trenches, in his broad French-Canadian accent...
Even aside from the threat of surface raiders, the battle of the Atlantic was going badly. German torpedoes sent to the bottom a Canadian corvette and a Free French corvette, damaged a U.S. Coast Guard cutter so severely that it turned over while being towed to port and had to be sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy...
...Though they spend their lives on the bottom of the sea, well protected from rain, oysters grow plump in rainy seasons, lean in droughts. So claimed the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Reason: rain washes minerals from the soil into sounds and ocean bays, where they fertilize the microscopic plants which oysters...