Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
...submarine can sit on the bottom, motors off, provided the depth is no greater than its usual cruising depth. In really deep water, the submarine's hull could not stand the pressure...
...fall of Jacob Thorkelson in his colleagues' esteem began with his comradeship with Fascist-minded Major General Van Horn Moseley. It continued when he stuffed the Record with weird anti-Roosevelt statements, when he pointed out how many Jews head House committees. Fortnight ago the Thorkelson decline thumped bottom when he packed the Record with an eleven-column letter supposedly written by Colonel Edward M. House. Woodrow Wilson's brain trust, to David Lloyd George, on June 10, 1919. The letter, instantly spotted as a fake by scholars, proposed a fantastically detailed program for making...
...Churchill said that Scapa Flow was being searched carefully, that any U-boat hiding on the bottom must rise or perish. He insisted that the anchorage's defenses were modern and believed impassable...
...June 21, 1919. That day its British guardians put to sea for maneuvers and Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter issued the order: "Paragraph 11, acknowledge" (i. e., open all seacocks, scuttle the Fleet). Fifty of the 74 German vessels, led by their flagship, Friedrich der Grosse, gurgled to the bottom before the British could intervene. Last week old Admiral Reuter (retired) telegraphed Hero Prien: "I am happy that I have been allowed to live to experience the revenge...