Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...
...justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President, Cal replied, after a Coolidge silence: "Well...
...good aiming and luck, the bomb had touched off a powder magazine. The forward turrets with their six 15-in. guns nodded and crumpled. The hull broke, made a great V. Twenty-one minutes after the bomb hit the Roma, she sank. She was the first battleship ever sunk at sea by bombing alone...
...which must bring back Jap loot from Asia and the East Indies, transport Jap supplies to extended island bases. In one of his most optimistic moods, ebullient Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week told the U.S. public that one-third of Japan's precious cargo shipping had been sunk...
...Knox's estimates: when the war began, Japan had 6,368,891 tons of merchantmen. Since then she has added approximately a million tons of ships seized, ships salvaged and ships new-built (mostly wooden ones).* Of that total tonnage of about 7,500,000, the Allies have sunk 2,500,000 tons...