Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change of Course. The comeback was amazing even to the Japanese. By V-J day the U.S. had sunk 80% of Japan's merchant fleet, once the world's third biggest. left it with only one passenger liner, five ocean-going merchantmen and a few hundred overworked and battered coastal vessels. SCAP also scuttled any plans to rebuild the fleet. Under the surrender terms, Japan could build no ships for herself bigger than 5,000 tons, none of them faster than eleven knots...
...nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little use for the dialectic of true love. They maneuver Victor into...
Mankind in its hundreds of millions, is on the march toward what goal and with what destruction on the way no man can foretell. Whole nations have sunk out of sight behind the Iron Curtain; whole peoples have disappeared from view...
This varied composition is explained by assuming that the planet they came from was molten inside. The heavy metal in it had sunk toward the center. The lighter stony stuff had risen toward the surface. In between was a zone containing both metal and stone. So when the planet blew up, its fragments might be either metal or stone or a mixture of both...
...first clash with the "enemy" (ten submarines and one cruiser) brought on an intra-fleet rhubarb. A Russian sub (H.M.S. Taciturn) got through the destroyer screen and promptly claimed hits on four carriers, but the umpires (on the surface ships) ruled her sunk. Such differences will be resolved when the two-week exercise is finished and the commanders gather in Oslo for a review. Meanwhile, "sunken" carriers and subs fight...