Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. He was a most excellent hippopotamus, living peacefully and heavily to the ripe age of 32 1/2, dining noisily on bales of hay and shovelfuls of beets. During the long afternoons, when things were slow, he would swim leisurely in his tank, coming out occasionally to dry himself in the sun. "Happy" took life easily, and when he yawned, it was a twenty-two inch event. He led an aristocratic existence if ever there...
...July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from the newspapers trooped to catch him performing, but he was generally too busy lolling in his tank to pose and finally they left him in peace. Happy lounged around...
Decatur, machinists in Rockford, farm machinery workers in Rock Island, railroaders in Moline, miners in West Frankfort, Caterpillar workers in Peoria, tank builders in Alton, the farmers in the drought area, auto dealers, grocers and other merchants across the state . . . The figures of these men and women of Illinois whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom...
...snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky end." To avoid such an end (i.e., suppression), Connor enlisted as a private in the tank corps, worked on a British army newspaper, and rose to a major...
CHRYSLER, which lost a big chunk of its defense business when General Motors took over as sole supplier of Patton M48 medium tanks last year, will soon be back in medium-tank production. By underbidding G.M., Chrysler won a new $160,600,000 Army contract for 1,800 Pattons to be produced at its Newark, Del. plant, has also landed a $22 million contract for experimental work on the Army's secret "Redstone" ground-to-ground guided missile...