Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big batch of orders since the Korean war was placed last week by the Army Ordnance Department. From Detroit, where the staff of the tank arsenal runs the show for automotive ordnance, contracts went out for tank-type vehicles of the same family as the new light tank to be built by Cadillac (TIME, July 31). American Car & Foundry Co. (Berwick, Pa.) and the Massey-Harris Co. (Racine, Wis.) will build howitzer carriages, the International Harvester Co. (Melrose Park, Ill.) armament personnel carriers, and the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Renton, Wash.) gun motor carriages...
...their terms the orders showed the pattern which Ordnance will follow. No prices were fixed. After the companies get into production and establish actual manufacturing costs, final contracts specifying prices will be drawn. Colonel David Crawford, commander of the tank arsenal, guessed that on an order for 1,000 vehicles, for example, the price would be fixed at about the 300th vehicle...
Unlike the helter-skelter days of World War II, when a light tank might be powered by any one of four different engines, the parts and engine of the new vehicles will be standardized. They will be powered by the six-cylinder air-cooled Continental engine specially developed...
...raid warning system gives you time, get off the street and into a shelter. If no shelter is near, get away from windows and inflammable material (especially your car with its tank of incendiary gasoline), and drop to the ground. If you are in a tall building, go to the middle of the floor or, better still, to the ground floor or basement. If you are at home, go to the basement...
...Tank Killers. At first, the planes carried key military personnel, brought back evacuees. But when the G.I.s in Korea sent back an emergency call for weapons to stop the Russian T-34 tanks, the lift loaded up with 3.5-inch super-bazookas, followed with tank-killing 90-mm. "shaped charge" ammunition (TIME, Aug. 14). It also hustled out new fighter plane engines, hauled back others for overhaul in U.S. factories...