Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slowly hope is lost; suddenly grace is given. In the bottom of a barrel sunk in the sand, he finds several inches of clear water. Water in this blazing waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead...
...turned up none of the debris-life jackets, cans, splintered wood or bodies-that would be expected to mark a sunken vessel. The only ones who seemed to be sure of what had happened were the Russians. Tass, with barely disguised glee, reported helpfully that three ships had been sunk by the U.S. gunfire, but its statement was nowhere confirmed...
Inflation from Wages. Once first, the U.S. has sunk to tenth place among world shipbuilders, barely ahead of Yugoslavia. Since the end of World War II's building boom, 20 U.S. shipyards have folded, leaving only 21 private yards and eleven Navy yards; the private operators have orders for fewer than 50 merchant ships a year. Meanwhile, world-leading Japan is working on orders for more than 200 merchant ships, and Britain, Sweden and Germany have more than 100 each. Not a single foreign-flag ship is being built in the U.S.; the U.S.'s 15 subsidized lines...
...have been made by casual skindivers, but the real payoff generally goes to companies that can afford elaborate treasure-hunting equipment such as electronic metal-detection gear, air compressors, sand pumps and power boats. Real Eight, Inc., a group of Vero Beach-based underwater operators that has so far sunk an estimated $150,000 in the Atlantic, recently made its first major strike: the wreck of what was probably one of a group of Spanish ships that foundered in a hurricane...
...wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman in the war; he died in the Pacific when his submarine, Pickerel, was sunk...