Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castle. In Portland, Ore., Zoo Director Arthur Greenhall moved six alligators to a new tank at the Zoo, had his bathtub all to himself for the first time in ten months...
...throw their hats in the air were the members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee who had blocked Patton's promotion since last October. In the sudden new acclaim for Tanker Patton, Albert ("Happy") Chandler rose hurriedly and intoned: "At this hour he [Patton] is perhaps the greatest tank soldier in the world ... I have changed my mind...
Proud of his operating skill, energetic, 52-year-old Joe Frazer did not take that lying down. At the suggestion of the Navy, he organized a company to take over Warren City Tank & Boiler Co. Last February he changed its name to Warren City Manufacturing Co., became its president, soon doubled its output of landing barges and other war goods...
Flesh and blood could no longer stand before Omar Bradley's slashing tank-infantry assaults, the endless, unopposed scourging by the greatest array of air power in history...
Range of Destruction. Ike Eisenhower had moved to France and become a field commander again in order to be in at the kill. His tank-infantry teams, swinging in from behind, had brought Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army (20 to 40 divisions of the Reich's best troops) into range of destruction...