Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, told how he and his comrades butchered a gang of Germans trying to cross a stream in one of the Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared...
...entire city block and cost some $600,000 (its equivalent in Gothic would cost an estimated 30% more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...
Tobruch looked to be an easier place to capture. Like Bardia, it was protected by a semicircle of forts, 16 clusters of six sunken casemates each, with another chain three to five miles outside the town within the outer ring. But Tobruch was thought to be undermanned and underequipped. Half the Italian artillery, ammunition and transports, one-third of the Italian Army was already in British hands. Moreover, Tobruch was known to be dependent on tankers from Dérna for its water supply. And Italian captives in Bardia were sure Tobruch could not hold out. Said one colonel...
...Cause of the strike was the refusal of the Vultee Co. to grant wage increases to approximately 3000 men whose basic wage was 50 cents an hour. The union claimed that $20 a week was not enough for a man to support a family decently, and asked that the sunken wage floor in the Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books, the Vultee Corp. can hardly be said to be struggling with its back to the budget wall in its altruistic and purely patriotic effort...
...Several sunken "shapes" on the bottom of the inner harbor...