Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exchange the notes for a new 364-day issue. The Commission has jurisdiction only over borrowing of a year or more. All but $1,000.000 of the maturing issue was exchanged. Mr. Hopson testily denies that he is "milking" Staten Island Edison. Since in good times the parent company sunk large sums in improving the subsidiary, he can see no good reason why the child should not help the parent in sorry times...
Magnetic Declination, Azimuth. The squall struck the ship like a rock; she heeled over on her beam ends. "All hands to starboard!" bawled the officer on watch. It was too late. In 30 seconds the Niobe had capsized and sunk...
...found himself wanting to get into the air again. He hired a manager for the farm, a plane for himself, began to pile up hours. After operating a small school of his own, he got himself appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemeunde, on the Baltic, sunk his capital into it, won such fame for it that pilots of other European countries came for advanced training on seaplanes and flying boats...
...action sunk another large milestone along the way to consolidation of the country's carriers into a few strong trunk-line systems. A dozen years have passed since rail mergers came to the fore as a major problem of U. S. Transportation. At least another dozen must pass before the question can be called settled. Past milestones...
...Last week Liberty announced with pride a net profit of $103,222 for the past five months, first profit ever shown by the magazine into which Publishers McCormick & Patterson are supposed to have sunk $12,000,000 before Bernarr Macfadden acquired it in April...