Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...
Died. Sir William Ashbee Tritton, 71, British agricultural machinery expert who, in collaboration with W. G. Wilson, designed the Mark I "mother" tank, prototype of all British tanks used during World Wars I and II; in Lincoln, England...
...weaknesses of military administration, said the committee, were nowhere more apparent than in the procurement of new equipment. "When the Army decided to create a great tank plant on a wheatfield in the outskirts of Detroit to be operated by the Chrysler Corp., it was not even able to furnish worthwhile drawings of the tanks it wanted...
Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town. They cannonballed from east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...Helen of Bikini." As the concrete caisson to house Helen was lowered from the weapons ship Albemarle to LSM 60, Senator Carl Hatch got in a plug for his home state by chalking on its side "Made in New Mexico." Through a specially designed opening in the tank-deck of the landing ship, the caisson was lowered several fathoms into the limpid waters of Bikini lagoon. Then all except a few specialists headed out to open water...