Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locomotives (backbone of any military supply system), 7,164 flatcars, 1,000 dump cars, 100 tank cars...
...Park, Ill., Mrs. Abraham Katz heard the news that her son, Charles, "was saved, and said quietly: "I wish all mothers of prisoners could share my joy." But in Maywood, Ill., families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...
...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
LeRoy J. Petrillo, son of the A.F. of L.'s contentious little Music Czar James C. Petrillo, sat in a 6th Armored Division tank in France, recalled his peacetime job as music librarian at Chicago's radio station WCFL, pondered the postwar world. Said G.I. Petrillo: ". . . I don't ever again want to fight anybody. I'll leave the fighting to poppa...
Fuel-oil stocks dropped rapidly as whole trains of tank cars were flagged down in the West to wait until the East had dug out of the snow. Oil stocks on the Atlantic Seaboard were one and a half million barrels short of a year ago, when reserves were uncomfortably...