Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Gottfried Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
...Blow. That the U.S. had suffered at Pearl Harbor the worst defeat in its history was now plain. Not only had the Arizona been sunk, as Navy Secretary Knox acknowledged after a quick survey of the Pearl Harbor wreckage 52 weeks ago. The Oklahoma was perhaps beyond salvaging. The California, West Virginia and Nevada were either badly damaged or aground. (A ship in the bottom of a shallow harbor can be floated.) The other three battleships in Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7, the Tennessee, the Maryland and the Pacific Fleet flagship Pennsylvania, were put out of action temporarily...
Warner Brothers, which has sunk $3,000,000 in three Errol Flynn pictures (including Gentleman Jim), is worried about the effect on its investment of Actor Flynn's trial on statutory rape charges, scheduled for next month (TIME, Oct. 26). But such opposition is not very likely to make Gentleman Jim kiss the canvas...
Washington admitted: five U.S. transports totaling 53,000 tons sunk by submarines off Casablanca, Rabat and Algiers. The five, which went down with wartime paint and wartime names, were once well-known passenger ships: American Export Line's Excalibur and Exeter, American President Line's President Cleveland and President Pierce and Grace Line's luxury liner Santa Lucia. Casualties were "very small," said Washington...
...score was not final. First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander, confining himself to British losses of warships, declined to reveal how many British supply ships and transports had been sunk. Let the enemy rely "on his false claims as in the past," said Alexander. All losses were "considerably less than expected." On the basis of these first reports, they were only 2% of the 850-ship armada that made the attack...