Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tank cars filled with 45,000 gallons of arsenic trichloride stood on a railroad siding in the town of Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 2,000) last week, slowly dripping one of the deadliest of poisons. Four years ago the oily, yellowish liquid was bought as surplus from the Army's Chemical Corps (which had used it during World War II to make lethal Lewisite gas) by a company which planned to use one of its derivatives in drilling oil wells. Later the company went out of business, leaving the cargo unclaimed...
...months passed, the chemical ate its way through the tank cars. Arsenic trichloride, when mixed with enough water, breaks down into arsenic trioxide and hydrochloric acid in a chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...Conditioned Paint. A bright white paint that substantially reduces the temperature of metal and asphalt roofs in hot weather is being marketed by Coating Laboratories, Inc., of Tulsa. "Koolcote," which consists of four special pigments mixed with "activated" plastic, has kept a metal tank at a temperature of 99½° in tests during 100½° outside temperatures (v. 143° for a tank not Koolcoted). Price: about 6? per sq. ft. for steel surfaces, $150 for the average roof...
...tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
...time in making his point: "Perhaps you haven't realized that your bonds were self-imposed, and that with your own thinking you have forged the fetters that are binding you? But you have . . . Just as surely as the divine voice spoke to our friend in the tank of the ship and directed his release, so that divine voice speaks to you and me as we learn to understand God aright...