Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
...Pact is contingent. The British public, however, is growing more & more concerned with another problem-the continued bombing of British ships in Spanish waters by Rightist planes. Since the war broke out two years ago, 55 British ships have been attacked. Nearly half of these have been damaged or sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment to these attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...