Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are many Russian officers in the Loyalist Air Force. Others are commanding tank companies or artillery units and some even leading infantry columns. I saw several of these Russian officers at the front in University City. They speak no Spanish, but give their orders in French to a Spanish officer who interprets...
Aviators of the invading forces complained that to desert with an airplane is certainly worth more than $6,000, but otherwise the scale of bribes was esteemed just. Another itemized scale announced that Premier Chiang will pay $3,000 for an anti-aircraft gun; $900 for a tank; $300 for a machine gun; $9 for a rifle and $6 for a pistol...
...Queen, Victoria." The Queen, helped by Tennyson, Carlyle, Disraeli and Gladstone, sent the books under the impression that the Fire had destroyed Chicago's public library. Actually, in 1871 there was no city library to burn but the citizens were shamed into founding one, in an old water tank which had survived the flames. First book to circulate was Author Thomas Hughes's presentation copy of Tom Brown's School Days...
Most interesting exhibits to the layman browsing about the Truck Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were...
Ketchum is a tank town on a branch line of Union Pacific R. R. Its new importance springs from the fact that it lies a mile above sea level in snowy Sun Valley at the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains. For in Sun Valley, U. P.'s Chairman William Averell Harriman is developing a winter resort with heavy emphasis on skiing. He envisions it as a St. Moritz...