Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, General Boatner put an end to one annoying Communist practice. A company of U.S. infantrymen, wearing gas masks and wielding bayonets, charged into an enclosure, formed a ring around a 50-ft. Communist flagpole to keep prisoners away while a tank battered down the pole. The infantrymen burned five insulting banners and then marched out again...
Koje's new boss, Brigadier General Haydon ("The Bull") Boatner, got orders to "obtain uncontested control" of the Red-controlled stockades. He ringed the compounds with tanks, machine guns and infantry, began building smaller, more manageable stockades (500 men to each), into which the prisoners will be dispersed. Two rifle companies of British Commonwealth troops were shipped to Koje, to spread the onus of disciplining the prisoners among as many nations as possible. Koje's 80,000 P.W.s were pinning down a six-nation tank and infantry force almost a division strong...
Plainly, something was gravely wrong at the Detroit Arsenal, the biggest tank manufacturer in the U.S. During World War II, in an 18-month period, Chrysler had not only built the plant from the ground up, but turned out 729 completed tanks.* Yet in 18 months of Korean war, the Army Ordnance Department, starting with a fully equipped plant, had turned out far fewer tanks. Last week Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. took drastic action to set things right: he announced that he is taking the plant away from Army Ordnance and turning it over to Chrysler...
...change will make Chrysler, already working on heavy T-43 tanks at its new Newark, Del. plant, the biggest tankmaker in the U.S., put it ahead of G.M., whose Cadillac division is turning out T-41 light tanks at its Cleveland plant. Chrysler was ready for the new production challenge. Its engineers have already perfected a new-model medium tank, the T-48, which the Army believes will be the best thing of its class yet made in the U.S. Since battle experience has shown that most fatal tank hits are on the hull, Chrysler has cast...
...dual-purpose" plant, to be used for either war or peace production. The Army has agreed that Chrysler may use part of the plant's 1,200,000 sq. ft. of floor space to turn out civilian goods, provided the company doesn't fall behind in its tank production. Since the contract provides $500 million in tank orders alone, it looked as if Chrysler would have its hands full for a long time to come...