Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German instalment buyers, promising they will all get delivery by 1942, but the People's Car Works may have been converted to make munitions. Thus far the Führer has not thought it worth-while to risk further overstraining of the German financial structure by trying to float a war loan...
Standard anchored sea mine is 300 Ib. of TNT in a steel case about three feet in diameter, providing enough airspace to float it. The "uncontrolled" mine, which goes off at contact of any heavy object upon the "horns" (containing detonators) with which it is studded, is usually anchored by a sinker at such depth as will keep it invisible at low tide. U. S. mines used in World War I had 35-ft. antennae attached to their horns which greatly increased their contact range. For harbor defense, "controlled" mines are fitted with electrically charged detonators discharged...
...Belligerents might float no U. S. loans beyond normal short-term commercial needs...
Businessmen flinched at the prospect of seeing the Government step into railroads as it has into Power. But soon Wall Street learned that any investment houses which wanted to hurry and outbid the Government, float equipment trusts of their own at low interest rates, would receive the New Deal's blessing and perhaps insurance for their money...
...coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador current was reaching farther south than usual...