Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the award the U. S. must pay $10,773,000 for seven big ships which long ago disappeared from the sea. Two (President Lincoln and Cincinnati) were sunk as transports in the War. Four (Pennsylvania, Barbarossa, Hamburg and Koenig Wilhelm) have been scrapped. One (Friedrich Der Grosse) burned up in 1922 on the Pacific. The Princess Irene the N. G. L. bought back from the U. S., rechristened it Bremen, changed its name to Karlsruhe when the new Bremen was laid...
...Halliburton, a resident of Duncan, Okla., with business headquarters at Tulsa, made considerable wealth in the oil business, sunk a great part of it in "SAFEWAY" lines.† Member of no large group in the industry, he has always been one of the most vocal of the air tycoons...
...painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible...
...least, to the usual specie of human being. A similar step in a considerably better direction is for all the dry agents in the country to form a collegian jazz orchestra for the purpose of working their way to Europe on the Lousitania--which unfortunately has already been sunk...
...capita the French now owe a national debt of $466. Just across the Channel every John Bull and his Jane are sunk with a debt of $830-the greatest per capita of any people on earth. Just now France is doing so well that last week she was able to pay back ahead of time $75,000,000 borrowed from Swedes. While Mr. Snowden is forced to raise British taxes, M. Reynaud was able to make last-week a slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel...