Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bold and the Brave but I would like to express my profound gratitude for it ... The idea for the movie came about when a young producer friend of mine was showing a 16-mm. film history of the 34th ("Red Bull") Division, and I saw my own tank destroyer in action in Italy. I got very excited and decided to write a war story. I will be grateful my whole life for such a profound, incisive and very beautifully written analysis of what I was trying...
Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
...echelon reshuffle at the auto-and aircraft-parts company. He succeeded his father, Roy C. Ingersoll, 71, who relinquished the presidency after six years, but remains as board chairman and chief executive officer. Young Ingersoll joined the company in 1939, during the war spark-plugged BW's amphibian-tank project, became an administrative vice president...
...this moment Dr. Lilly's mask started to leak, and he had to get out of the tank to keep from drowning. So he never learned what lay at the end of the blue-lighted tunnel...
...their U.S. debuts); the Fifth International Philatelic Exposition, with 575 stamp exhibitors from 69 governments and $5,250,000 worth of rare issues, including the famed century-old British Guiana one penny black stamp; a National Photographic Show, with 170 exhibits worth some $10 million, including a glass-walled tank to demonstrate the latest underwater photography techniques...