Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the last thing stubborn Howard Hughes had wanted to do (TIME, Jan 6). But RFC had been just as stubborn. Some $19½ million in RFC cash had already been sunk in Hughes's experimental, 750-passenger flying boat, the Hercules. And a Senate committee was curious enough about this deal to question Hughes last week to find out what RFC had got for its wad. (Hughes had hopes that the Hercules would fly this year...
...happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship was singled out by a U-boat and sunk soon after clearing port. Another ship was frantically loaded with engines, and sent off-unescorted-to catch up with the rest. Miraculously, it got through...
...battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...
...must be aware by this time, Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the 20th Century Fox bunch have sunk untold millions into the salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort...
...Contentment. To Americans, Quebec's best-known resort is Mont Tremblant, where lodge, inn and 60 cottages are laid out like a French Canadian village. Joseph ("Emperor Joe") Ryan, Philadelphia-born grandson of famed Thomas Fortune Ryan, has sunk $2,000,000 in Mont Tremblant since 1938, now grosses $600,000 a year from rates ranging from $7 to $14 a day (with meals...