Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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F.O.B. U.S.S.R. Russia is priming its automotive industry to compete in world markets with Detroit's automakers. Under a new five-year plan, retooled tank plants and new auto factories will mass-produce low-cost cars. The Gorki works alone is scheduled to roll out 1,000 a day. But last week, this news was the least of Detroit's worries...
...M.G.M.) was intended as a swatch of gossamer, but seems to have been spun in the innards of a Sherman tank and stitched together with a sledge hammer. Nonetheless, it has a spasmodic charm, thanks to the friendliness and prettiness of some of the people who play...
Professor Renshaw has proved that the human eye, properly trained, can observe instantly a complicated object (such as a tank or an airplane) and impress it as a whole upon the mind. At his Navy Recognition School at Columbus, Ohio, he taught 4,000 officers from all branches of the armed services how to do this trick. As graduate instructors, they trained servicemen to tell friend from foe before the foe got too close...
...Cadillac's Nicholas Dreystadt, 56, who learned his fundamentals in Germany's Mercedes plant, put them to good use turning out the best U.S. light tank...
...voices of what seems like hundreds of individuals. Each voice, in the inflection of its own part of the world and in the jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very...