Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia the Germans are using a wheeled anti-tank torpedo, as big as a motorcycle sidecar, electrically guided and detonated by a cable trailing from the torpedo to the operator. The Russian defense: cutting the cable...
...Army's anti-tank bazooka is a rocket weapon. Two U.S. rocketeers, Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...
...Tough, tank-wise Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs has 16 divisions spread through blazing Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, probably wishes he had 16 more...
With military supervision and secrecy, and with plentiful U.S. funds, wells are being brought in as fast as the drills can go down. Pipelines are being strung through some of the roughest country on the continent. Refineries and tank farms are going up to make and store gasoline and oil for the planes to Asia...
...Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...