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Word: hulk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs plowed on, occupied an empty shell of a town beyond Tushan before they stopped. Then they began to back up, abandoned the scarred hulk of Tushan. Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Respite | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Germans have already trundled the bomb-damaged hulk of the battleship Tirpitz from Altenfjord south to Tromsö, where the R.A.F. found it and hit it again with a six-ton bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (North): Into Norway | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...made a deal with Roen. The deal: if he could raise the ship, he could have her; if not, he must chop her off at his own expense to allow 35 feet of clear water over her. Roen took the gamble: by spending $300,000 he might get a hulk that could be rebuilt into a $1,000,000 ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Mackinac Miracle | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Balance. A week later Roen and his crew of 50 had a bad scare. An airline kinked; air began to flow unevenly. The starboard decks burst out of the water, and the hulk listed dangerously. Months of body-breaking labor hung in the balance. A fast-thinking crew member picked up a shotgun, blasted the air hose. Gently the ship settled back into the water, to be brought up again slowly and on an even keel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Mackinac Miracle | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Navy plans to reconvert the French liner Normandie (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) into a military vessel were abandoned last spring. She is now lying idle in an unnamed U.S. port. Best guess: the hulk will be turned back to the French after the war, possibly to be rebuilt as a peacetime luxury liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Mackinac Miracle | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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