Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT Corp. is ready to flight-test its big (20-ton capacity), powerful (15,000 h.p.) turboprop military-cargo plane, the YC-130, next week. Designed as a workhorse, the YC-130 can carry a tank, take off from short, front-line airstrips, fly faster and higher than any other U.S. military transport. Lockheed already has Air Force orders for 29 YC-lSOs, and expects to deliver the first production model within a year...
...rest. Outside Broome, Murray's 1948 Ford V-8 (which he uses for a tow car at home) ran out of gas; Murray promptly made a deal with another driver, whose car was stranded with burned-out bearings. After filling his Ford from his competitor's gas tank, Murray towed the stranded car to town, gassed up again and went...
...when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands...
...Coyo and Grandfather Cocoyo are born thieves who have come up in their island world by means that normally lead to the guillotine. Now respectable, they live on a prosperous seaside plantation. Their chief idiosyncracy is that they keep Manidou, a huge pet shark, in a specially built tank that has an outlet...