Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-silhouette Mio tank destroyer, announced with typical fanfare by manufacturers' (General Motors and Ford) publicity men only last month, has failed to stand the test of combat in North Africa. The Army is still seeking a lower, faster...
...prewar favorites have gone down the drain: the 37-mm. anti-aircraft gun (replaced for medium altitude firing by the Bofors 40-mm.) and the famed 75-mm. field artillery piece (which gives way to the higher-velocity 3-in. gun that can stop any tank seen thus far). Infantry divisions still get some 37-mm. guns for anti-tank defense but will eventually replace them with six-wheeled...
...Army's newest sensation, the one-man rocket gun-"bazooka"-that can stop a tank (TIME, April 5) may cause a further revision of artillery production...
This quarter, with tank-car deliveries already above 900,000 bbl. a day, total supplies should average 1.4 million bbl. a day, only 200,000 below normal, prewar consumption. A clear surplus is visible if the savings (150,000 bbl. from conversion to other fuels, and 335,000 bbl. from gasoline and fuel-oil rationing) are subtracted from the 1.6 million bbl. prewar demand...
...Next summer, extension of the Big Inch to New York and Philadelphia will bring in 300,000 bbl. a day (a net addition of only 200,000 bbl., because tank cars now hauling from the Big Inch terminal at Norris City, Ill. must then go all the way to Texas). By next winter a second pipeline from Texas will add 110,000 bbl. (net), in 1944 will deliver still more...