Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on opening day, when free tickets were broadcast, 15,000 spectators turned out. The rest of the week, while the stables were filled to capacity, a comparative handful of customers rattled around in Gulfstream's big steel grand stand. Young Jack Horning, who had sunk $1.400,000 in the venture, wondered if the racing commission's first thought had not been best. It was. After four days Gulfstream Park closed. But not for good, insisted Owner Horning...
...personality still as bland as ever, was in new trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually...
...reason for most accidents is that too many people go too fast when they can't really ski." he said. "They haven't learned the principles of stemming which is the basis of all skiing. If you don't learn that, you're sunk...
Sadly Author Herr disclosed he had sunk $21,300 in his literary venture to date...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...