Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that everyone except the wives and mothers of the men on board the PN9 No. 1?giant plane which vanished a fortnight ago, somewhere in the neighborhood of Hawaii?had come to the conclusion that the airship had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific or been crushed in its waves, rumors persisted that it had been found with all its crew alive. Such a message was picked up by an amateur radio operator...
...including expenditures for reconstruction of the devastated regions and receipts of German reparations. The expenditures for reconstruction always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a constant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished, but it had sunk France so deep in the quagmire of finance that a call had to be made on Wizard Caillauxtion always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a consistant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished...
...plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain objects (which had sunk) to rise again. One or the other must be found. The ships, the planes, and the 18 destroyers, continued searching...
...invented, by Prof. W. Le Lewis of Northwestern University while chief of the Defense Division of the A.E.F. Gas Service. Perfected late in the War, Lewisite never saw active service. Shells containing it are said to have been buried deep underground after the Armistice, tanksfull towed to sea and sunk. It is said to be so deadly that a relatively small amount would devastate a large area, making it worthless for crop cultivation for ten years...
...cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been able to read her name on bows and stern...