Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the use of special equipment an airplane will be able to do almost anything in the hangar except fly. Guns up to 75 mm. can be fired from the planes directly on to a firing range, dummy bombs dropped into pits sunk into the hangar floor. Take-offs and landings will be simulated, and motor vehicles road-tested...
...quay at El Ferrol, where the Caudillo was born, an old man sings to himself: "Francisco, you are done for. Francisco, you are sunk." The police pounce on him. They discover that the culprit is the Caudillo's aged father, who is sure that his son's power & glory are evanescent and will lead him only to ruin...
...Bowditch men finish their work, Seabees will build six 75-ft. steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
...first things he would learn would be the shrewd formula by which promotion-wise Larry Spivak has lifted the Mercury to 95,000 circulation, from the 33,000 to which it had sunk when Editor H. L. Mencken wearily stepped out in 1933. It had long since lost all the sudsy sarcasm it had under Mencken, was now an excitable cross between Reader's Digest and an exposé sheet. The Spivak formula: find a man with a promising cause, and exploit them both. Sample "discoveries...
...barely dry on the 1934 Corporate Bankruptcy Act when depression-sunk U.S. railroads rushed into Federal Court to be bailed out. Most of them, representing investments of $4 billion and more than 40,000 miles of track, are still in court...