Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ickes had little to crow about. OPA coolly brushed off his main contention-that an overall price increase is needed to boost wildcatting and thus uncover new fields. OPA pointed to figures showing that wildcatting is now at an alltime high; in all, estimated 5,000 wells will be sunk this year, a whopping 1,500 over last year's record high. As OPA sent its plan along to Stabilizer Vinson for approval, it hoped that it had taken the steam out of the drive for an overall crude-oil price increase...
...wife makes a date with a flashy 4 -F who is about to take her out when the radio interrupts with the news that her husband's ship has been sunk. Another wife answers Ginger's "Gee, aren't men fools" with "Yeh, but aren't they sweet." (Ginger's eloquent reply: "Mm-hmmm...
...London last week the British Admiralty announced the loss of one of the crack warships of World War II, the 5,270-ton light cruiser Penelope. She was sunk with another cruiser and two destroyers off Anzio...
Admiral Nimitz announced the results: one cargo ship sunk, others set afire or damaged; a total of 135 Jap planes destroyed against a loss of six U.S. planes...
...Mitscher's force many hours away, sent wave after wave of planes against it. During the night, antiaircraft gunners aboard the carriers and their protective ships knocked down fourteen. Hellcats shot down five others which attacked the force during the morning. The fact that no U.S. ship was sunk (and none admitted to be damaged) provided the best vindication of the carrier's ability to meet land-based planes. Superior numbers of superior aircraft had upset the theorists...