Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September, after North Korean armor had been slashing into outnumbered United Nations forces, many U.S. papers carried a picture of General MacArthur looking at a captured Russian-made tank. To newsmen he said, "This is a pleasing sight for my old eyes." The Red journalists printed MacArthur's picture and quoted him correctly. But their version showed a great change. MacArthur was gazing, not at a Russian tank, but on a pile of dead North Koreans...
Britain: Spending 21% of her budget* for defense, will increase to 33⅓%. Under arms: 800,000 men, 7½ divisions spread around the world. Available to NATO: 2 divisions now, 2½ more by 1952. Equipment: mostly World War II design. Best weapons: 60-ton Centurion tank, jet fighters. Morale: fair; labor government uninspiring, but Britain's effort is biggest in Europe...
Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers...
Divorced. Margaret Hughes Wright, 44, heiress to the Hughes tank & boiler fortune of Warren, Ohio; by Philip L. Wright, 47, head of a small Cleveland steel plant; after 21 years of marriage two children; in Cleveland. Blaming the break-up on her drinking, the judge awarded Wright principal custody of the children and $100,000, something of a record in alimony to a husband...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...