Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies would be drawn, in approximately equal parts, from three sources. Such items as trucks, anti-tank guns and radar equipment would have to be built (and paid for at current costs). Jeeps, rifles, ammunition, some types of artillery, and destroyer escorts (the largest ships to be sent to Europe under MAP), would come from the armed forces reserves, established after the war. They would be charged against the program at replacement cost. Other items would come from excess stocks...
...flashing, buzzing combination of spectrographs, portable loudspeakers, walky-talkies, and brand-new Lincolns with loop-antennas projecting through their roofs. Finally caught in an oil refinery, Mr. Cagney is shot down by four more of those fine, accurate rifle bullets. One of the bullets touches off the gas storage tank upon which he is perched, and he dies, laughing like hell. He is probably laughing at all the money Warner Brothers and the cops have paid out to bring him down...
...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...
Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
Last week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there...