Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunter Hunted. In June, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 312,000 tons of Allied shipping-a far cry from the mad March days of 1942 and 1943, when they claimed 900,000 or more. But even this relatively modest claim was a thousand percent exaggeration. In other words, sinkings actually were under 30,000 tons...
...recent months the number of U-boats sunk by Allied air and sea patrols has exceeded the number of the U-boats' victims...
Aloof from the mud and excitement last week was the man who started it all. A wildcatter and full-fledged promoter, Ace (for Assaph) Gutowsky is a 58-year-old Russian with a Gregory Ratoff accent. On 28 previous occasions he had sunk his money and drills into the soil, found nothing...
Behind them, Seabees and Army engineers repaired the roads. Before them lay Apra harbor, its turquoise waters whipped into white streaks by PT-boats on guard against enemy movement. U.S. ships returned to the harbor-the first since the minesweeper Penguin was sunk Dec. 8, 1941. Supplies began to flow in for the attack inland. Patrols probed seven miles across the island. Main bodies followed, cut Guam in half...
...were cast, convention orators were unabashedly referring to Franklin Roosevelt as the nominee. On the opening night, Keynoter Bob Kerr, Oklahoma's pink-jowled Governor, set the theme: "with our Commander in Chief to victory." He also showed how deeply one of Tom Dewey's arguments had sunk in by roaring: "Shall we discard as a 'tired old man' 59-year-old Admiral Nimitz . . . 62-year-old Admiral Halsey . . . 64-year-old General MacArthur . . . 66-year-old Admiral King . . . 64-year-old General...