Word: sunk
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Fillies & Pirates. Galbreath plays just as hard as he works, has sunk more than $5,000,000 into his hobbies. On his big white-fenced farms outside Columbus and Lexington, Ky. (both are named Darby Dan Farm), he has assembled some of the world's finest thoroughbred breeding stock. He got Ribot, the "Horse of the Decade," from Ribot's Italian owners on a five-year lease for $1,350,000. He has already set one mark in racing: he paid the world's record price-$2,000,000-for Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, hopes Swaps...
...Maine coast last week. At Boothbay Harbor, Me., the 139-ft. "pogy" (menhaden) boat Rappahannock is fitted with a 52-h.p. compressor that delivers 196 cu. ft. of air at the pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. The idea is to shoot the air through perforated tubes sunk in the water near schools of fish. Curtains of bubbles rising from the perforations look to the fish like an impassable barrier and shoo them toward the Rappahannock...
...Tahiti, the waves became nothing more than wildly fluctuating tides. At Pago Pago they carried three houses into the bay; in New Zealand, sheep dogs chained to kennels were swept out to sea and drowned, while the waves' great ebb eerily exposed the wreck of a British frigate sunk in 1840 off Auckland...
...managed to weather the squalls of the Depression, but in World War II the company was almost swamped when 1.187,548 tons of its shipping was sunk. It began a 70-ship rebuilding program at the end of the war, branched into other areas of transport, laid the keels for 14 new oil tankers costing some $112 million, bought an aviation subsidiary, British Aviation Services, that last year ferried more than 67,000 cars and 193,000 passengers across-the English Channel...
...taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost...