Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle. Then he found himself in the thick of the Korean War, covering the battle from the front lines. The war correspondent casualty rate was higher than in World War II, and Davies felt he was living on luck until one day when his jeep smashed into an onrushing tank. He emerged with a broken arm and a fractured skull...
Early Career: during World War I, served at Army training posts, rising to lieut. colonel (temporary) in the tank corps; during the 19203, after reverting to his permanent rank of captain, he gradually rose to major; was No. i man in his class (1926) at the Fort Leavenworth Command & General Staff School; in 1932 stood by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur during Washington's famed bonus march; in 1933 became MacArthur's aide; from 1935 to late 1939 served as MacArthur's right hand in the Philippines; learned also to fly a plane (300 air hours); distinguished...
...dramatic Gigolo and Gigolette, in which a high-diver (Glynis Johns) plans to commit suicide because she thinks her husband no longer loves her. Reassured of his affection, she safely makes the 80-ft. leap into a five-foot tank of flaming water while morbid Riviera spectators look...
...complacent observer of high taxes points out that all the money somehow comes back to the people. A fresh-water clam in the well-balanced home aquarium pumps through his voracious valves nine gallons of water a day, yet the fish around it do not starve. Rather, the tank is purified in the redistribution. So the Government pumps it in, and pumps it out for the greatest good of the greatest number. That's the idea...
...Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...