Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...franc was falling (to 470 for $1 last week against an official rate of 350) and there was talk of another, drastic devaluation. Blueprints for a new French tank, theoretically one of the best in the world, gathered dust on the drafting board because prices have climbed too high to produce it. Costs of French fighter planes have shot up as much...
Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...
...protect the honor of the fire department, no inspector was ever allowed to certify an unsafe burner or to wink at a leaky tank; contractors were forced to comply with the law before a bribe was accepted. If a contractor refused to pay, nobody threatened him; the collector simply waited for cold weather to jar him into paying...
...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (circ. 232,861), stepped into the job he had been groomed for during the past 20 years. A paper-tosser with a regular route at eleven, he moved up to office boy, then staff photographer (as a tank commander in North Africa, he was captured, held prisoner by the Germans for 27 months). Later he sold advertising, was promoted to advertising manager and member of the board of directors of the company. Last week he was named president of the company, and Amon Sr. moved up to chairman of the board, where...
Regular rowing will begin tomorrow in the tank at Newell Boathouse. Harvey Love, starting his first year as varsity crew coach, announced. Up to now rowing has been unorganized and purely voluntary. Love said that outdoor work would begin sometime between February 22 and March 1. depending on weather conditions...