Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither can the editorial men strike during that period. The 286 men laid off in a Levi economy slash during the past six months must be given preference when any rehiring is done. Though it did not win a closed shop, the Guild, by winning its first Chicago contract, sunk a deep wedge in the stiff-backed opposition from Chicago publishers...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese...
...naval and air forces of the Son of Heaven soon began shooting up the Yangtze, sinking scores of heavily laden Chinese junks. They were believed to have sunk all Chinese warships anywhere in the vicinity of Nanking for many miles up and downstream. Colonel Hashimoto, senior Japanese officer, announced "I have orders to fire on every ship in the river!" Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small...
...British flagship in Shanghai waters should be sunk, or if General Telfer-Smollett or Admiral Yarnell should be killed, it might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that...
...Benito Mussolini, have a care! You've ruined the Woman I love, Democracy; killed my aged mother, the League of Nations; sunk the British fleet and set fire to the Empire-but beware...