Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the decrepit old highway petered out, the party left its de luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...
...pools in Victoria and Coke Counties, Texas. By last week he was drilling for oil, or preparing to, in 18 states. Confidently he announced that his first oil "province," the one near Roundup, Mont., and his Texas wells will pay off more than 10-to-1 for the cash sunk in dry holes...
Japanese naval caution was explained in part by new statistics in the silent, relentless war by U.S. submarines. The U.S. Navy Department announced 15 more Japanese vessels sunk by subs. Total sinkings of Japanese war and merchant ships since Pearl Harbor: 1,288 sunk, probably sunk, and damaged...
...turn on General Mihailovich alone. There is also a very large body, amounting perhaps to 200,000 Serbian peasant property owners, who are anti-German but strongly Serbian. . . . They are not as enthusiastic in regard to Communism as some of those in Croatia and Slovenia. Marshal Tito has largely sunk his Communistic aspect in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has repeatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing [Serbia's] property and social systems . . . but these facts are not accepted yet by the other side...
...phosphate-producing island of Nauru, which is isolated south of the Marshalls. In Dutch New Guinea, General Ma-Arthur's troops killed 398 more Japs and captured 173. It was announced that Thirteenth Air Force P39 Airacobras and dive bombers are now equipped with rocket guns, had sunk 40 supply barges in Rabaul harbor with the new equipment presumably mounted in clusters of three under each plane's wings...