Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communiqué from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters boasted of 151 ships sunk with a tonnage of 1,029,000. A me-too Rome broadcast claimed that Italian submarines have accounted for 71,700 tons...
...grim day dawned bright and balmy. When it had sunk into the gentle arms of night, there had been no riots, no suicides, no crackups. Taxpayers had thronged U.S. banks, but not to borrow; they had wanted tax experts and free notary services...
...continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...
...made them blue chips. Under the Treasury-proposed tax program, these sound peacetime policies will hardly pay; "excess profits" will be taxed 89%. Net will depend very little on good management now, very largely on how much money was earned five years ago or how much money was sunk in the company a generation back...
...survivors of the crew of the U-37, a Nazi submarine sunk by air bombs in Canadian waters, run a marathon across Canada (Hudson Bay to Alberta). One (Eric Portman) goes the distance; the others are killed or captured along the way. The survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...