Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tank Surplus? After the shock wore off, businessmen wondered why, then, they had seen plants standing idle. So did civilians who have passed enormous army dumps jammed wheel to wheel with trucks, have seen massed fields of hundreds of tanks. Army Ordnance itself has even complained of a big tank surplus at Chester, Pa. Statisticians recalled further that the cutback of a "few facilities" totaled around...
...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...
...week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...
...that the test of war had put the tank in its proper niche - a powerful but not a supreme weapon - even devout Armored Forcemen took a new view of its employment. No longer can the armored divisions, immoderately proud of their dashing cavalry background, expect always to go into battle in the full strength of their organization...
...potent have anti-tank defenses be come (TIME, March 29) that the Panzer division's infantry (one regiment) is no longer powerful enough against strong resistance to clear the way for its tanks...