Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals and admirals scanned the news of strife and stress in the world and took a worried look at the armed forces' fuel tank. The tank was all but empty. The Army Air Forces were down to a 90-day supply. The Navy has less than half its operating needs. With the U.S. now using as much petroleum as the entire world consumed ten years ago, oil companies had scrambled for bigger shares of the civilian trade, and the services were being squeezed...
...standard combat and transport craft. Planemaker Grover Loening told committeemen how, as a representative of WPB, he looked over Kaiser's plan and reached the same conclusion as the military men. WPB's aviation experts figured Henry Kaiser didn't know an airplane from a Sherman tank and that his promise to get the first model into the air within 20 months only proved...
Although the engine pumps water from the hydrant it can draw on its reserve tank of 435 gallons if necessary, White said. In either case the pump maintains a pressure of 600 lbs. per square inch at the nozzles...
...back of an extension of the dock, in relatively quiet waters, are two stationary single rigs. Similar in principle to the eight-oar, indoor tank in Newell, they are used for singles practice, with triangular holes in the oar-blades to simulate actual conditions...
...rest of the summer, at least, the Midwest will have no more gasoline than in 1946-and consumption is up about 15%. The Midwest felt the pinch first because the railroads, swamped by the bumper wheat crop, could not haul enough tank cars. The East Coast, supplied by tanker, is luckier...