Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there is no tank in this part of the country big enough...
Technically, "Chain Lightning" is accurate- the jet flying shots are the best pat of the film. There are some impressive climax scenes: when Brennan lands in Washington with an empty gas tank, and when his chute opens out against a background of clouds at the end of the picture. Bogart is equally competent whether he is zipping through space or singing "Bless Them All," but Miss Parker's acting in her co-starring scenes is somewhat hackneyed...
...cloud-hung Gulf Coast bristles with a staggering concentration of chemical plants-enormous, surrealistic jungles of piping, gleaming spheroids of tanks and stacks-and with miles of great oil refineries, tank farms and factories. The combined Gulf ports handle more export tonnage than New York. Texas produces 80% of U.S. sulphur, almost half of its natural gas, and a lion's share of that Texas delicacy, chili powder. Texans make B-36 bombers in the Consolidated Vultee
...knowledge that he had only a dollar and a half, McCarthy borrowed his mother's wedding ring, contrived to get a license and engineered an elopement. His father-in-law was not pleased. McCarthy moved his bride into a $15-a-month apartment, got a job painting tank bottoms and swore to get as rich as the Lees in a hurry...
Shortly after World War I began, Clement Attlee volunteered, fought in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France with the South Lancashire Regiment and Tank Corps, returned home four years later with a major's crowns, a D.S.O. and the scars of two severe wounds. He went back to Limehouse, and Charles Griffiths, his old army batman, went with him. Despite incessant attacks of dysentery, which Attlee had picked up during the war, he worked all day and many a night as well, speaking at meetings, getting the lads of Limehouse out of trouble and lending his kind, mild counsel to anyone...