Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feature of the practice RSOPs were simulated tank attacks, one of which was successfully repulsed; the first attack was completely successful as none of the cannoneers recognized their prime movers as tanks...
...season is up to average, lightning will kill some 400 people by October,* burn up about twelve million dollars worth of farm buildings, cause half the oil-tank fires, set forests ablaze across the country, scare millions of picnickers and bathers, and add new legends to already existent vulgar errors...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...
...Rail terminals are being modernized to cut turn-around time for tank-car trains...
Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment. When war hit the Far East, almost everything about mica immediately became a military secret. Reason: most high-grade mica comes from India, and without it no tank, ship or airplane would be of much use, since mica is essential for radio condensers, and there have been no acceptable substitutes...