Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patriot. In Portland, Ore., a woman motorist gave four A coupons for 12 gallons of gas, sighed when the tank took only 11.9, cheerfully raced her motor until there was room for the rest...
...British turned their artillery on the tower in earnest. Across the bridge suddenly appeared a U.S. flag: the north end had been cleared. As if they had rehearsed it for weeks, the infantry moved in to clean out the Germans on the slope behind the Belvedere. At last the tanks moved out across the bridge. There was still one moment of awful suspense as the first tank reached the central span: would the Germans' demolition charges in the bridge explode? They...
...Arnhem. Meanwhile General Dempsey's rescue force itself was in a ticklish spot. It had pierced a narrow slit into enemy territory. Behind it the Germans rushed in to cut it off. By furious tank attacks, the Germans at one point seized the road that was Dempsey's supply lifeline. After anxious hours they were thrown back, only to try again at another point. One mile from the slim corridor of advance, airborne Americans smashed a German concentration. A call for help brought rocket-firing aircraft into play against the tanks, and the second thrust was beaten back...
Roen spent the winter sinking and raising a 30-in. model of the Humphrey in a tank of water over & over again. Finally he knew every detail of the job. In the Straits this summer Roen sank a salvage barge over the freighter, attached cables and filled the barge with air, thus lifting the freighter six feet off the bottom. Then he towed the Humphrey along until she dragged on the bottom again. In a series of eight of these operations, he moved the Humphrey a mile and a half under water. When she reached shoal water, Captain John began...
...beaches where these feats were performed, deliveries had to be made to a ravenous customer who demanded over a million gallons of gasoline a day-and who kept changing his address. By last week 700 miles of pipeline had been laid. From the end of the pipelines, tank trucks carry gas and oil 100 miles to distribution points, where fuel is transferred to five-gallon cans. Two-and-a-half-ton trucks take the cans to advance Army dumps...