Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what has been done in British waters, who by the spirit they possess will energize and inspire the whole campaign." To feed U.S. fears were harrowing ac counts of survivors landed from torpedoed ships at ports from New London to Key West, a May toll of 15 ships sunk in the Gulf alone, the spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good-neighborly Brazil. U.S. papers, which tabulated their own totals (the Navy issues none for publication), reported that at least 241 ships had been lost off the U.S. coasts since war began. Readers feared that...
...advantage of the one route between the two continents that is not subject to the submarine menace." Mr. Cutcheon is a tall, white-haired, retired utility executive and electrical engineer. He is appalled at estimates of Allied shipping losses (around 500,000 tons a month), figures the cost of sunk ships plus cargoes as at least $2,000,000,000 a year-not to mention the damage to the Allied war effort. His figuring gave Mr. Cutcheon an idea that by now is almost an obsession: a railroad from Duluth, Minn, to Moscow, U.S.S.R. He envisions a great flow...
...practically all river transport around Shwebo had been sunk under orders, and as the railway was hopelessly jammed with refugees and later with some wounded and stranded, we formed a motor column composed of 14 jeeps, four sedans and about ten trucks, planning to go along by cart tracks as far as possible, then to walk. There was no other...
...torpedoing of the Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis...
...last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking of a 2,000-ton merchant vessel and an icebreaker...