Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oilman Sinclair's brother, Consolidated Oil's Finance Committee Chairman Earle Sinclair, has an adopted son John, who is a 22-year-old Sinclair tank wagon salesman outside Philadelphia. The election of Harry Jr. to the board of a corporation with $342,000,000 in assets seemed to require an official explanation from the chairman. Said Father Sinclair last week: "My son's election to the Board does not mean that he is going to have a mahogany desk and a big salary. It is simply a part of his education. . . . When he has completed his course...
...Reisig of Larchmont, honorary president of the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Humane Society: "I was the means of having her [Mrs. Tuttle] banished from our society when it was charged that she put beautiful, expensive pets, principally cats, to death in the Larchmont police station, where they had a gas tank." Said President William Bevan of the Westchester County Animal Protective League: "I've known Mrs. Tuttle for years. . . . There must be a misunderstanding somewhere...
...most amazing escapes of all. Cornered on a narrow catwalk when the gasbags all around him leapt into flame, young Franz jumped through the fabric, fell to earth so hard he was stunned. He would have burned to death as the blazing hulk settled upon him, but a ballast tank burst above him, drenching him with cold water which both revived him and extinguished his burning clothes. Unharmed, he groped his way to safety...
Defender. To small boys who sail model boats on duck ponds, the best models are those patterned after America's Cup yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important...
Bilbao. With few reserves and only a handful of modern planes to oppose the air squadrons of Italy arid Germany, Bilbao's Basques fought grimly on last week, but fought a losing battle. City defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered...