Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the conventional triangular division, with its top-heavy headquarters units and its sizable "land-tail" (heavy weapon units, regimental tank companies, etc.), all of the new division and its specially designed, lightweight equipment can be airlifted. At its heart will be five self-supporting battle groups, each 1,580 men strong, and each containing a 155-man 105-millimeter mortar group and a small (220) headquarters outfit. The groups, broken down into five battle companies each, will be backed up in combat by an atom-armed 140-man Honest John rocket detachment, by a 500-man 105-howitzer group...
...high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
...shouting, stone-throwing rioters, Negroes by week's end were still in mixed classrooms, and the guardsmen were beginning to leave. In western Kentucky armed mobs roamed through the mining towns of Sturgis and Clay, yelling for "nigger blood." But the mob quickly subsided in the face of tank-borne National Guardsmen sent by Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who declared they would stay there "as long as necessary...
...wrong, of course. The German breakthrough in the Ardennes requires that the company be flung into the breach. Captain Albert once more fails. The film ends in a woolly Walpurgisnacht in which Palance, after slaughtering quantities of Nazis, is ground into the mud by an enemy tank while Albert alternately cowers in bed and runs berserk with a submachine gun until finally shot dead in a cellar by Smithers, who then nobly surrenders...
...Calais. They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...