Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...information: the U.S.S.R. has assembled a massive military striking force in Siberia, trained and equipped for offensive operations. They might well be intended for use against Japan and, possibly, Alaska. Equally important, the Russians have been patching up their industrial weakness in this area by constructing a network of tank factories, airplane and locomotive plants, shipyards, steel mills and oil refineries. The threat hung heavily on U.S. military planners, who assume that not Korea, but Japan-with the greatest industrial plant in the Orient-is Russia's real goal in the Far East...
From now till spring oarsmen will no longer row on the river, but will come to Newell voluntarily to work out in the tank. The winter rowing is primarily for self development and to keep the crewmen in shape. Coach Harvey Love commented that fall rowing was especially successful this year, "There are no poor oarsmen among them this fall," he said...
Victory & Winter. Two columns of burly Patton tanks thrust into the outskirts of Kumsong, shot up everything in sight, and retired to their lines without losing a vehicle, although the Reds had fired on them from a respectful distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within...
...action: ¶ Wielding flamethrowers and white-phosphorous grenades, gallant doughfeet of the U.S. 2nd Division and attached French overran the last, northernmost peak of Heartbreak Ridge, where a few diehard North Koreans were holding out from a fortified bowl-shaped depression on top. The attackers were aided by tank columns which ranged up the valleys on both sides of the ridge, blasting the Communist positions on top and on the slopes. The peak was so precariously held by the allies that they were dislodged-for twelve hours-by a Red counterattack in less than company strength. Then the U.N. forces...
Answer Man. Swensrud has been exploring new oil markets ever since he finished Harvard Business School in 1927, went to work as an assistant to W. T. Holliday, president of Standard Oil of Ohio. While riding Standard's tank trucks and dropping in at filling stations, Swensrud always asked the "Why" for everything, jotted down the answers in a little notebook. He found out so many things that executives who played by ear couldn't answer that he rose swiftly to vice president. He was marked for the top job at Sohio when Gulf hired him away...