Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that the warden would not let this weapon within his gates (and, incidentally, that it would not fit through the gates) is, we feel sure, only a temporary problem. We congratulate...
After Stalin. On the camp loudspeakers, Vorkuta learned of Stalin's historic stroke. The religious knelt to pray. Others sang joyously. "A 'political expectation' spread through Vorkuta," says Konrad Michailowski, onetime major in the German 16th tank division, who arrived in the camp in 1950. "Everyone thought that Malenkov, whom they called 'Uncle Zhorka,' would change things. Things didn't change and Vorkuta became ripe for trouble...
Social Awareness. In Kansas City, Mo., after being slugged on the street by two pipe-swinging strangers, having the fuel tank of his car filled with sugar and the car's tires punctured with an ice pick, Grocery Clerk Homer P. Hatfield solemnly told police he thought that someone must have...
...track for vehicles. Present steel-tank treads chew up paved roads...
Antifreeze Gas. To prevent automobile fuel lines, pumps, etc.from freezing with the water that condenses inside the gas tank, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) is putting a new additive into its premium White Crown gas. The additive forms a solution with the water to keep it from freezing (down to 20° below zero) in the fuel lines...