Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outlook, after more than three and a half years of war, was still not good for the Allies. Germany was building subs faster than they were being sunk; Allied shipbuilding was just beginning to hold its own. The balance was close, and there were factors weighing heavily in Nazi Germany's favor. What Adolf Hitler could not do by land to stop the Allies' march toward Europe's borders, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, CINC of the German Navy, was working hard to do by sea in the Atlantic moat where the first defense of Europe...
Carcharinus fired the ambitions of Harvard fish-fanciers a year ago, and one was caught in Lake Nicaragua, only to be sunk by a barbarous Hun submarine on his way north. Then President Somoza caught three of them, but lack of shipping facilities decayed everything but the President's snapshots. The last attempt pulled out "C. N.", as he's familiarly called by those who love...
...Texas to show how the independent oilmen are being frozen out of the oil industry, with the result that the number of new "wildcat" wells has power-dived to an alarming low. Example: Harold Ickes, petroleum arbiter, pleaded for 4,500 wildcats this year. So far Texas operators have sunk a mere 233, bringing in only 1 8 oil wells...
...ratio of new wells to use probably means far more pessimistic figures in 1943. The U.S. will not find itself out of oil tomorrow or the next day. But when the war reaches its peak, the pinch may come. To avert that pinch, wildcat oil wells must be sunk this year...
...Wildcats. Under present conditions, independents say the wildcats cannot be, and will not be, sunk this year. For months the independents have waited for Washington to do something about the low ceiling price on crude oil ($1.17 per barrel), the high labor costs, an unfavorable tax situation, importation of low-cost foreign oil (258,000 barrels per day). Tired of waiting, they are going out of business...