Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...
With Fritz-Aurel Goergen, the boss of West Germany's Henschel Works, awaiting trial on charges that he cheated the government in a $16 million tank deal, businessmen have been wondering what would happen to the vast heavy-equipment firm he made one of Germany's most profitable. Last week Essen's Rheinische Stahlwerke ended the speculation by making a bid to purchase Henschel, a move that would catapult the enlarged firm to third place among Germany's coal and steel giants (after Thyssen and Krupp...
Persuasion Trouble. Fellman considers himself a kind of marriage broker. "You have to be a diplomat, banker, mother and pacifist," he says. He has paired Aldon nylon carpets with a Chrysler Corp. M-60 tank (to demonstrate durability). Eastern 727 Whisper-jets and Du Pont fabrics, Muriel cigars and mink coats-and Carol Channing and her boat and bounty. Fellman insists that finding a theme to carry a tie-in is only part of his problem. The real trouble comes in persuading a brace of sponsors to accept an idea, and figuring out how much each should pay for sharing...
Lieut. General Creighton W. Abrams, 49, new Army Vice Chief of Staff, replaces retiring General Barksdale Hamlett. From the moment the 37th tank battalion, which he commanded, rolled into action in Normandy in July 1944, "Abe" Abrams showed the feel and flair of a born combat man. Leading the sweep of General George Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing...
...that afternoon. Threats had become a commonplace in his life, but in recent weeks they had seemed even more ominous. Besides, he knew that the license number of the station wagon had been circulated by the area's Citizens Council. Chaney had the car's tank filled with gasoline before leaving Meridian; the three workers did not want to make any unnecessary stops in dangerous territory...