Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since 1914 the purchasing power of the franc has sunk to about one-fourth...
Died. Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Self ridge, U. S. N., 88; in Washington. He entered the service in 1851. In the Civil War he was second in command of the Cumberland when it was sunk by the Merrimac, commanded the naval battery at the siege of Vicksburg; was the "only officer who commanded sailors in a successful battle against Confederate cavalry...
...victory to his credit wants another. His argument is this: From a military standpoint the present canal is weak: its locks may be broken by bombardment from sea or air; an earthquake such as that of 1882 might break Gatun dam and empty Gatun lake; a ship might be sunk in one of the locks where it could not be blown up without ruining the works. From a commercial standpoint he maintains that the Canal will become inadequate, estimating that it will have a traffic of 45,000,000 tons in 1934, and 135,000,000 tons in 1944, based...
...Preventing all danger of slides in Culebra Cut by a series of concrete monoliths sunk through the sliding strata to solid rock below...
During the night the transport Henderson of the Black Fleet ran the fire of the land batteries to the entrance of the canal and was "sunk," partly blocking the channel...