Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival. Under her own steam the $1,000,000 Jonah limped into New York, berthed in Edgewater. "Miraculous," said the crew...
Hoping to sight a sub (and sink same) in the Windward Passage, Ensign Pinter did not want to jettison his bombs. But on the take-off he was sorely tempted to let them go. Said his report last week...
...months, ideas and plans for such a manpower mobilization had floated across the White House desk, to sink out of sight in the President's "dead basket." The clear-cut necessity for such a mobilization had been sidetracked by the usual scramble of power politics-and by the President's reluctance to set in motion such an upheaval. Then a fortnight ago four White House advisers (Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Budget Director Harold Smith, and Brain-Trusters Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Anna Rosenberg) met in secret sessions, emerged with a final plan. Last week...
...Sink the flags of Freedom's foes...
...fireball among educators is bounding Vierling Kersey, superintendent of Los Angeles' public schools. Superintendent Kersey is now attacking his country's enemies with everything he has, not excepting the kitchen sink. Last week he unlimbered a couple of new weapons and showed the U.S. an amazing example of a school system waging...