Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the week of July 12, big-laughing Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox laughed off newsmen with optimistic noises. In that very same week, more Atlantic shipping was sunk than in any other week since Nazi Admiral Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2) launched his well-prepared undersea attack...
...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
Whether a reduction in U.S. official and semi-official bombast would equal the banana reduction remained to be seen. Floridians last week were particularly sensitive. They had seen ships sunk within a few miles of the coast. At one time two burning tankers were in view...
...planet, hordes of such rodents pop up out of the earth from time to time. Small, silent, fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...
...England has been hardest hit. At least three Boston fishing boats have been sunk; the Government has already taken 76 of the largest boats and more are sure to go. There is practically no fishing on George's Bank (200 miles out of Boston) or Sable Island Bank (500 miles out), for centuries the nearest and best East Coast fishing grounds. Thus Boston's long, scale-paved Fish Pier took in only 114,664,000 lb. in the first six months of this year v. 153,838,000 lb. a year ago. The June catch was only...