Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...Steel is one thing that Franklin Roosevelt still considers too costly and he has often remarked that the steel industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their determination, continued bad times might succeed. 2) Building material prices last week hit a new low since 1936. In Franklin Roosevelt's last lecture on prices he remarked that a sharp increase in building costs last...
...gunmen in the decayed ex-kitchen blazed away in mimic warfare in the second part of the program. Firing from a distance of 50 feet, they attempted in turn to stop a toy tank as soon as possible while it meandered among scenery constructed especially for the occasion by Lawrence B. Bixby, Captain, Field Artillery, U. S. Army and Assistant professor of Millitary Setence and Tactics, the orginator of this yearly meet...
...before it had gone 11 inches. An accurate try of Richard G. Labovitz '38, blew his target right off its track. However, the star performance was Hall's Rather than hopelessly disembowel the toy, thus rendering it useless, he struck the starting lever with his bullet, thereby stopping the tank, uninjured...
Laurence L. Arnold '38, in desperation fired his last short at the crawling tank as it passed behind the last artificial camouflage. When found, the mortally wounded tank was squirming its last, bits of gear oozing from a gaping hole in its side...