Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that politics play as much part in the war as the tanks rolling around the battlefields. If we don't take an interest in just who leads our Government we'll find worse things than tanks rolling around the home front. News that deviates a little from "sunk," "killed in action," and "taken" is most welcome these days and I don't consider that being an escapist...
...Nazis finally admitted last week that A.P.'s indestructible Larry Allen is a prisoner of war (TIME, Sept. 28), but they scarcely knew what to make of him. Picked up in a boat after the British destroyer he was on had been sunk off Tobruk, the first thing he did after landing was to demand an interview with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The Germans, astounded by this "rather queer wish by the prisoner," turned it down...
...Commission's main reason-aside from the steel shortage-was that Higgins was too expensive. Estimated cost of his yard started at $26,000,000, soon rolled up another $33,000,000. And before the yard could even open, more millions had to be sunk in new housing and new power plants, between 45,000 and 85,000 men had to be found, hired and trained. Higgins did not deny this, only snorted that the Commission had published the lower cost figure "for its own convenience...
...greatest number of attacke, which reached a peak during May and June when more than 174 vessels were sunk, occured off the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean...
...Squadron" ... The selectees will enter training and serve as a unit as part of the program commemorating the launching of the new carrier U.S.S. Lexington... Lieutenant Harold E. Williamson, recently commended for "courage, skill and endurance" during the Battle of the Coral Sea in which the old carrier was sunk, administered the each...