Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sphere & Float. The pressure-resisting part of the submarine will be a 15-ton steel sphere nearly 7 feet in diameter, with walls 3½ inches thick. By itself, packed with apparatus and Professor Piccard, it would sink like a stone forever. But immediately above the sphere will be a submerged, boat-shaped float filled with light buoyant oil, which cannot be squashed. Below it, held tight by powerful electromagnets, will be enough iron ballast to make the submarine sink. When the Professor shuts off the current from a one-ton battery, the electromagnets will drop the ballast...
...yard and mutters, "It's not much, but it's a roof over your head," the occupants smile and retort: "It doesn't look like much from here, but wait till you get inside." In one corner of a large living room, paneled in something resembling oak, is a sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place is kept warm by a single circulatory kerosene heater...
...week quietly celebrated the marriage of the world's biggest steel company to the nation's largest surplus plant. And it had the blessing of Attorney General Tom C. Clark. U.S. Steel Corp. bought the $190 million Geneva Steel plant for $47,500,000. Big Steel will sink another $25 million in expanding its western subsidiary, Columbia Steel, along with $18.6 million in Geneva itself...
...when he got to Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...
...mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...