Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changes hands every night and where the peril of a road can be measured by whether it reopens each day at 7 or 9 or 10 a.m. All over the country each morning, as regularly as shaving, a handful of French or Vietnamese must venture in jeep, truck or tank down the roads, looking for mine or ambush before the buses and beer trucks and handcarts can travel, before the long lines of patient and straw-hatted coolie women, bamboo poles on their shoulders and heavy burdens hanging at each end, can begin their incessant dogtrot down the roadside...
...particularly prudent driver, says Bureau Chief Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia. All have one thing in common: in World War II each was captured by the Russians and held as a prisoner...
...wreckage of fields is only one aspect of the drought. Almost everywhere in the drought area and in many peripheral regions the water table has dropped alarmingly. Thousands of wells have run dry. In Missouri as in many a nearby state water is being hauled in trucks, tank cars and barrels from more fortunate spots. The drought has even affected cities. Some residents of Oklahoma City are drilling wells in their yards as insurance against shortage, and many houses in St. Louis and Kansas City are settling and cracking in the ash-dry earth...
...Vaccine. In a rambling pharmaceutical plant beside the Detroit River, the Parke. Davis technicians perform more alchemy. Using both Toronto-grown virus and their own crop, they filter the brew (to get rid of kidney cells, which might cause nephritis), make up 12½-gal. lots in steel tanks and add a dilute formaldehyde solution. When they are satisfied that the formaldehyde has killed every one of the billions of virus particles in the tank, they are ready to mix the vaccine...
...Treasury, the Government set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure loans for housebuilding and repair, thus spur the building industry. The experiment was a noble success. FHA's first insurance was on a loan for $125 to paint a house, repair the roof and install a water tank. Since then, the agency has insured mortgages on 3,940,000 housing units, and has made a total of 16 million loans for property improvement. FHA has not only been a mainstay of the postwar housing boom but has also been profitable. With a total of $30 billion worth...