Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uplands toward the 7,400-ft.-high capital. When the train had rumbled half way across Paso Grande Bridge a dynamite explosion slapped the locomotive and tender against the bank of a 40-ft. ravine, tumbled two wooden sleeping cars to the ravine's bottom. Oil from a tank caught fire and flames engulfed the wreckage. A man pinned in the debris pleaded in vain to be shot as the conflagration approached him. Final count: 13 dead, 18 injured. Investigators discovered 200 yards of double wire leading from the bridge to a detonator...
Died. General Jean Baptiste Eugene Estienne, 75. father of the French war tank; in Paris. Watching British tractors haul'up guns behind the lines in 1915. he interviewed Marshal Joffre. got permission to experiment with military tractors. In the second Battle of the Marne in 1918, 700 tiny Estienne chars d'assaut made their first big showing, brushed aside German barbwire and fortifications, were instrumental in the Allied victory...
...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
...Balbu Royal Tank Corps...
...only among such snorting Oldsters in Clubland but among hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...