Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safe, Brabham decided to try to win the title in style. Burning .rubber, he was in first place and in the last mile of the 218.4-mile race when his Cooper-Climax faltered and stopped, just 500 yds. from the finish line; a leak had emptied his fuel tank. Brabham climbed out of the cockpit and began pushing his 1,000-lb. car home, while the crowd of 15,000 cheered him on. As he pushed his way down the stretch, three cars flashed by to finish, led by his protege, 22-year-old New Zealander Bruce McLaren in another...
...Golden Fish (J.-Y. Cousteau; Columbia). Once upon a time there was a goldfish. It lived in a tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor...
...American Airlines Captain Don Tillett bought the Sitton Septic Tank Co. of Chicago for $35,000 four years ago, increased the gross to almost $130,000 last year...
...Cole, good mechanic, soon got a reputation as a Mr. Fix-It. Through the '30s Cole made giant strides in reducing engine noise and solving problems of engine cooling. The U.S. Army, whose tanks were regularly breaking down from engine over heating, grew attentive. Just before Pearl Harbor, Cole got his toughest job: developing a new rear engine for the Army's M-5 light tank in 90 days. Cole beat the deadline, and during the war Cadillac built 12,500 M-55. After the war, Cadillac assigned Cole to apply his tank know-how to building...
...Caddy's previous power plant, yet stepped up power by 7% to 160 h.p., and stretched fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect a rear engine for cars. In his spare time he designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed engine (the same kind as in the Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea of building a rear...