Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...green but growing forces have so far staged. On the north German plain, east of the Rhine, 150,000 British, Dutch, Belgian and Canadian troops were holding off a theoretical mass attack from the east. Britain had contributed three armored divisions, equipped with the 52-ton, Korea-tested Centurion tank. Belgium had one division of obsolescent U.S. Shermans...
...ducts. And the windows are a window washer's delight. Each one is surrounded by an air-filled rubber tire. When the air is let out, the window spins on its axis for easy cleaning. After washing, the tires are blown up again from a small compressed-air tank trundled around on a cart...
Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 51, daughter of the late King Victor Emmanuel, while driving with her husband, Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, along a highway near Milan, saw a tank truck swerve from the road and plunge into a ravine. While her husband drove to the nearest village for help, the princess, an expert golfer, swimmer and tennis player, broke into the truck's cab (the wreck had buckled the doors) and rescued the two drivers, who were drowning in wine. The wine-filled tank had burst, flooding...
...microphone recording the milking machine's gurgle, Hazel became the new champion milk cow of the world. She passed the record of 267,304 lbs. set by Ionia Ormsby Queen on Aug. 22, 1947. Hazel's lifetime production is worth more than $29,000, would fill nine tank trucks and run Whittier's dairy plant for 32 days...