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...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...
...spotted one in the waters off Grand Isle, La. (see map, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). An oceanographer who helped plan the Normandy invasion also helped Humble. He gathered the weather data for a stormproof drilling platform that took over 5,000,000 pounds of steel to build and whose pilings were sunk 197 feet into the Gulf bottom...
...shelling was over, the 3,400-ton cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised...
Many shuffled into Socialism with resigned resentment, considered it a business of "sign or starve." Explained one 40-year-old doctor: "I'm not keen on the service, but I can't afford to lose the capital I've sunk in my practice. I've got two boys to educate...
Anna and her husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...