Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the river finally dammed, the water rose rapidly and Jan. 13 was set for the takeoff. Suddenly the dam started giving way. Britons and blacks pitched in together, toiled side by side all night, finally stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under...
...loss of 100 submariners was the British Navy's heaviest in one engagement since Deutschland sank Rawalpindi (259 lives). The loss of three submarines (plus the 1,354-ton Oxley sunk by accident last autumn) left her with 65 of the 69 she had when war began. Added to France's 78, this leaves the Allies well ahead of Germany's pre-war total of 65 U-boats...
...only one warship last week suffered: the British destroyer Viscount reportedly hit a mine. Meanwhile the week's total tonnage sunk (15,292) was the second lightest of the war to date. The week's biggest sea news was announced officially by the French Admiralty: that Germany is constructing a fleet of 150-ton submarines, which can be turned out much faster than 500-to 740-ton U-boats, and will require only 20 officers & men instead of 35 to 40. These new ships, said France, would be able to cruise only four or five days, but there...
...Vatican and the Quirinal, divided by the Tiber River, are linked together by peace and by a common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand of a Roman Pope is lifted for the first time after several decades to bless [this place] as a mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace...
...against violations of the 300-mile safety zone, established by the Declaration of Panama last October. Because a naval battle was fought off the coast of Uruguay, because the Admiral Graf Spee took refuge in Montevideo and was scuttled on the River Plate, because a German merchant ship was sunk within the zone, the American republics warned the belligerents that they were going to consult "in order to strengthen the system of protection...