Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before the last link of Big Inch was completed, the motors were started on the pumps at Longview and the thick, black crude oil had begun the slow, oozing (three miles per hour) journey north and eastward. Some ten days later it would reach the storage tanks at Norris City; from there tank cars would soon haul it to the Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife...
...them into your leisure time. They are mere decorations upon the sterner pattern of life. . . . Men and women who are devoting their lives to such studies should not be made to feel inferior or apologetic in the face of a PT boat commander or the driver of a tank. They and all their fellow citizens should know that the preservation of our cultural heritage is not superfluous in a modern civilization. ... It is what we are fighting...
...Odium, son of famed investment trust magnate Floyd B. Odium, and a young buck out to show the world and his father that he could do a job. His first act was a juggling number called Great American Industries Inc., which already makes industrial rubber products, fire engines and tank rescue trucks, is adding telephones and electrical equipment. However much of a hodgepodge, Stanley's venture is spreading like a grass fire and making big money in the process...
Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of this use of existing plants and tools for new kinds of war production is the flexibility it gives the U.S. war plant to meet new changes in war strategy. Said one WPB production man last week: "If we use tank plants now to make aircraft parts we will be in better shape to switch back to tanks if that becomes necessary...
...merchant shipbuilders had good reason to feel proud last week-they were the one U.S. industry to reach the 1942 production goals set up by President Roosevelt right after Pearl Harbor. Aircraft production fell short by 12,000 planes or 20%. Tank and anti-aircraft gun programs were both revised by Washington and neither reached the original goals. But the shipbuilders splashed through with 746 ships totaling 8,090,800 tons, 90,800 tons over the President's quota...