Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water. In all his active life Samuel Insull never took a regular vacation. His periods of relaxation came...
...lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears would resurrect...
Congress, 'twas said, had sunk...
...Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff: when a fellow passenger tried to photograph him. "My mug is my own property," he snorted. "You have no right to photograph it. I will not consent to it." Between Samuel Insull...
...stated the case that every aviation manufacturer and Army and Navy procurement officer knows. Experimental costs in military work are so high that a firm in that line of business must make a killing from time to time to keep its head above water. Thus Berliner-Joyce, having sunk $112,000 on a job which paid only $87,000 felt justified in making $25,000 on a $211,000 order...