Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...
...west carrying 800 veterans, their wives and children. Next day two more chuffed off from the siding near the camp. With a brass band the Mayor was there to shake hands, kiss babies, distribute small change. The evacuation was well under way after ramshackle cars were given a free tank of gasoline and $1 to start them over the mountains...
Oats in Gas Tank. Amid these partisan attempts to create a personality issue out of the Speaker, Pundit Walter Lippmann delivered his Olympian opinion in the New York Herald Tribune...
...measures would simply make capitalism work somewhat more badly than it is now working. . . . He is the sort of man who, finding his car stalled on the road, would think not of repairing the damage or of obtaining a new car. He would pour oats into the gas tank, give the old car a kick and expect it to start running...
...diameter, it will be world's biggest. 8) The world's biggest single unit grain elevator at Albany, N. Y., covering eight acres, holding twice as much grain as all the elevators in New York Harbor. 9) The world's largest new type gas tank in Syracuse...