Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...
...traveling at 3 knots, the Pinthis at 7½ when they collided, that nobody heard any fog signals from the Pinthis, that Captain Brooks handled his helm and engines correctly. Declared the board: "Had the master executed any other maneuver than what he did, both vessels would have been sunk and possibly all lives lost...
...chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...
From these days of big game, Wolf Lamar has sunk far, as have a great many other Wolves of Wall Street. In 1927 he was charged with the act most typical of the Street's wolves-raising the price of securities through "wash" sales to friends...
...Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...