Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river lines were waiting too, and although the pause improved their supply situation, perhaps the main reason they waited went all the way back to Yalta. For the moment, the Russians were advancing into territory which they had staked out months ago. Meanwhile, the Yanks were coached in Soviet tank recognition and taught a few words of greeting in Russian. Artillery commanders were warned not to fire any farther than they could...
...wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
Hitler Youths, manning that tank, turned their guns toward the blazing barracks and mowed down the naked prisoners running and falling and rising to run again across the open field. Only four made it to safety. Only four out of 295 survived the hell carefully planned and executed by the Germans, in a fury because they couldn't carry their prisoners with them when Leipzig fell...
...Frazer started his dizzy fiscal feat with the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co., Warren, Ohio (pop. 43,000). The company's $7,000.000 plant was built by the Navy but, under private management, was falling down on the job of making landing barges, etc. So Joe Frazer, fresh from doing a bang-up production job at Willys-Overland Motors Inc., took over...
...formed a new company. Warren City Manufacturing Co., capitalized it for $500 ( 5 (500 shares : par value $ 1 ) . Then he bought the assets of Warren City Tank & Boiler with part of a $4,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan, 100% guaranteed by the Navy. He put in no money except $50,000 he lent the company...