Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business booming, Litchfield soon started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company was one of the most diversified in U.S. industry, turned out everything from Navy fighter planes to tank parts, gas masks, powder bags and artillery shells...
Died. Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 73, German World War II tank commander, exponent and early practitioner of the blitzkrieg; of circulatory difficulties; in a Russian prison camp. Product of the Prussian military caste, Von Kleist contributed decisively to France's swift collapse by sending his Panzer divisions racing around the northern end of the Maginot Line. In 1945 he surrendered to two American soldiers (to avoid being captured "in the presence of common, retreating German soldiers"), was sentenced to 15 years as a war criminal by the Yugoslavs, who then turned him over to the Russians...
...crew will continue to practice on the rowing machines and in the indoor tank during the winter months...
...same time, a strange structure was rushed to completion at Farnborough. A steel tank (112 ft. long, 60 ft. high, 20 ft. wide) was built around the fuselage of Comet Yoke Uncle. Its wings stuck out at the sides through waterproof rubber packing, and the whole tank, Yoke Uncle and all, was filled with water. Then pumps forced more water into the Comet until the pressure rose to 8¼ lbs. per square inch, equaling the air pressure in a Comet's cabin when it is flying at 40,000 ft. While the pressure was rising, powerful jacks moved...
Under Curtice in World War II, Buick turned out 75,000 Pratt & Whitney engines, 2,507 M18 tank destroyers and an arsenal of artillery shells. By the time Charlie Wilson picked him as his right-hand man in 1948, Curtice's interests ranged over all of G.M. But in his new job as executive vice president, Curtice could apply one of his greatest talents as overall styling boss of the corporation...