Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their captors had brought them to Chunchon only three days before. The Chinese fled when a U.S. tank patrol passed through the town. They left their prisoners a bundle of leaflets to be spread among the U.S. troops. "Those people actually believe that we're being oppressed by what they call capitalists and warmongers," said Pfc. Paul Phillips. Said Staff Sergeant Charlie Harrison, who had spent 3½ years of World War II in a Japanese prison camp, "I think I know better than most how sweet free air tastes. I'm not yelling uncle, but two times...
...platoon followed, bayoneting the Chinese as they fled. Seven guns were destroyed before a concentrated enemy fire pinned them down for the night. In the morning, Dodd took his men on up to the summit and won it once and for all. ¶Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, 31, tank commander, Company A, 72nd Tank Battalion. He is a farm boy from Dwight, Neb., fought in the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of August 31 on the Nak-tong River Line, Sergeant Kouma's tank was surrounded by 500 screaming Koreans. While the infantry pulled back, Kouma...
...Britain and Canada began standardizing their arms, a move that would simplify production and supply, save vast amounts of money. The three armies adopted the new 28-ton "Walker Bulldog" as their light tank, agreed on 400 other items, including 8-in., 75-mm. and 240-mm. howitzers, fuel, lubricants, electric voltage systems.* ¶The U.S. reassured its NATO allies about raw material shortages (other NATO members have long been worried about heavy U.S. stockpiling). Most serious of the shortages-tungsten, molybdenum, cotton, sulphur-brought Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Richard Rapier Stokes, to Washington last week. U.S. officials...
Persistence Rewarded. In Hot Springs, S. Dak., when they got no results from dropping lighted matches in the gas tank, two small boys set fire to the upholstery of Stan Englebert's car, soon turned the trick...
...eight plants around the U.S. and Canada (headquarters: Detroit), Fruehauf now produces scores of stock trailer models, including refrigerator cars, liquid tank carriers, log haulers, livestock vans. But much of its business still comes from customers who need special trailers which