Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. to succeed Harry B. Higgins, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Clarence M. Brown. A native of Pittsburgh and Cornell graduate ('24), Hill went to work for Pittsburgh Plate when it was changing from old-fashioned pot-casting to continuous tank methods. As general superintendent, he helped develop such new products as laminated glass, climbed steadily to glass-manufacturing vice president...
...technician whose best known preoccupation is reaching for the moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...
Varsity crew coach Harvey Love was foaming mad yesterday afternoon. Anonymous pranksters had poured several bottles of soap into the winter rowing tank. The product was akin to an exploded laundry when the first eight plied their oars in the innocent looking mixture...
Coaches and workmen spent three hours draining and cleaning the tank, but there may be no rowing today, since some remaining residue is temporarily clogging the tank's mechanism...
...pair of thieves cleaned the cash register at the Crimson Garage on Boylston Street late last night, taking $150 in cash. One of the two "went inside to get warm" while the attendant was filling the gas tank of the getaway car and rifled the register...