Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reduction of submarine armaments was carried one step further last week by accident, which has sunk 20 submarines since 1904 at a cost of more than 700 lives...
Publisher Macfadden is supposed to have sunk $7,000,000 into the Graphic?a figure which coincides with the approximate total of libel suits filed against it. (The libel suits were disposed of at a total cost of $5,290.) Three years ago Publisher Macfadden told Editor & Publisher: "It will make a few hundred thousand next year." But it never did. The only feature which ever gave promise of building and holding circulation for the Graphic?Walter Winchell's gossip colyum?was bought away by the Mirror...
...Victoria, was flimsily built and has been slowly sinking down upon itself, was revealed last week by a spokesman for George V. Able goldsmiths have just restored the Crown, declared the royal announcement. Adding new gold "they have reblocked it an inch higher, a necessary repair, for it had sunk so much and become so insecure that His Majesty could not have worn it much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled was 17th Century England when Oliver Cromwell, having ousted...
...glittering aquamarine, white & silver Sikorsky amphibian bought by an insurance company for William Randolph Hearst Jr. to replace one which was rammed and sunk by a fishing boat off Manteo...
While the Treaty cruisers were considered swift and of extremely long-range cruising ability, they were sufficiently vulnerable to have one of their number sunk and another damaged by aircraft attack and shell fire. The big submarines had proved efficient at scouting, but four out of five were lost in action. Planes had operated from carriers as far as 1,000 miles at sea, a record, yet their usefulness had been at the whim of weather...