Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the beginning of the spring term Haines has been holding practice sessions in the tank at Newell Boathouse, which has been opened for the first time in 13 months. This conditioning will continue for two weeks, after which the crews will start work on the river. The Crimson will again operate as an underdog this year, since Navy has been rowing on the water during the winter months, and M.I.T. has practically the same crew as raced last spring...
...Boat & Bridge. At 2:45 a.m. the earth leaped to the thunder of thousands of guns. There were 240-mm monsters, Long Toms. 1055, 755. The guns of tanks and tank destroyers, flak artillery and captured German rockets joined the barrage. A quarter-million shells fell on the German positions. But some Germans lived to answer with mortars and artillery zeroed in on the river crossings...
...Chernyakhovsky was the youngest Army general. A colonel at the war's beginning, he became one of the Red Army's top tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...
...Most widely believed (by 45%) was a rumor that a prominent Government official has three cars and a large underground tank filled with gasoline for his personal use. Another (believed by 13%): that producers' storage tanks are so full that tankers are dumping gasoline...
...Chamber of Commerce for help. The Chamber called Army Ordnance. Ordnance sent a man to Huntsville, got back a surprising report: he had found equipment and manpower enough to turn out 10,000 steel bomb-fin assemblies a month (with the boxes to ship them), plus sizable quantities of tank gears, canvas gun-covers, gas masks and other auxiliaries...