Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less Pride. In G.M.'s latest recall, another engineering error involved air brake valve hoses that were placed close to the left front tires on certain highway tractors. The hoses at times rubbed against the tires and wore through, causing brake failure. Chrysler last year mailed new gasoline tank caps to 25,000 of its customers to replace a faulty one that posed a safety peril. The old cap had a rubber seal that, because it tended to swell up and cover the cap's air hole, could have caused the gas tank to collapse...
...cars slammed into a tank car parked on a siding, rupturing it and allowing its cargo of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer to escape. Within minutes, a deadly, all-enveloping mist hovered over the vicinity. Sleeping in their house near the tracks, Ron Hatchett, 21, and his small daughter died almost instantly. So did an elderly couple living nearby and another man a few houses away. Besides the five in Crete, the accident killed three men riding the rails and hospitalized 18 other people with ammonia inhalation and burns...
This week the Safety Board is investigating a Southern Railway derailment in Laurel, Miss., where 13 tank cars loaded with liquid petroleum gas skipped track and exploded. Ten square blocks of Laurel were set afire and two of the townfolk were killed...
...house near the Citadel's east wall while waiting for an air strike. With him was a grimy U.S. Marine sergeant. Amid the noise of small arms and mortar rounds, the Marine muttered, "We sure are shooting the living hell out of them." Outside, a Marine tank grinding through the rubble took a B40 rocket in the turret and pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others; the new men did not even bother to wipe the blood from the inside of the tank. The house Greenway took shelter in is empty...
...that his course prospectus was unclear. It was worse than that. In vague introductory paragraphs, Bruening promised to consider such questions as "Does society at large have the right and/or obligation to attempt to control or eliminate riots?" But more closely defined, the seminar looked like a macabre think tank exercise in the techniques of riot repression...