Word: sunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...time Burke had moved on, the Little Beavers had sunk eleven Jap ships, damaged 20 more. They had lost none of their cans, had suffered little damage, almost no casualties. They had also written a new Navy book of tactics...
After the days of the proud, heavily-gilded, soft-cushioned Athenaeum, the Howard sunk to playing cheap variety shows in 1868. Ever since the name Old Howard has been used. For years the blue-lighted anatomical solos have brought the crowds past the box office...
Died. Hiram Edward Manville, 71, onetime head of Johns-Manville Corp.; after long illness; in Pleasantville, N.Y. Philanthropist, horseman, yachtsman, he sold his palatial Hi-Esmaro to the Navy in 1940, three years later learned that she had been sunk in the South Pacific...
...baleful days the Jap Navy: ¶ Lost 30 ships sunk, plus two probably sunk. Fifty-one more were damaged. ¶ Lost 13 landing barges, complete with packed crews, most of them on the way to reinforce the garrison at Saipan. ¶ Lost 757 aircraft destroyed by U.S. aircraft...