Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than half are North Vietnamese troops or Viet Cong main-force fighters, but these "regulars" are at least as numerous as a year ago. Their weaponry has markedly improved in variety and quality of late, from new AK 47 automatic rifles to rockets to the Soviet RPG-7 anti tank gun, which last week knocked out a Marine tank for the first time in the war. Last week, also for the first time, the North Vietnamese zeroed in on the Marines with Russia's family of massive 152-mm. howitzers and long guns: one round hit the Con Thien...
...across the Atlantic is by no means economical. A single-engine Piper Cherokee costs $8,500. To make a flight from, say, New York to London, a plane must have a complete high-frequency radio rig ($3,000 to buy, $300 a month to rent), an extra-large gas tank ($50) and survival gear, including life raft, jackets and flares ($35 a trip to rent). Then there are airport landing and service fees that range from a piddling $25 at Gander to a horrendous $300 at the air base at Sondre Strom, Greenland. There is insurance ($40 a month...
...single product. The original steam-driven Cat was developed in 1904 by a Californian named Benjamin Holt, who got the novel idea of mounting a tractor on its own treadmill tracks. So successful was Holt's "crawler" concept that it inspired the British invention of the armored tank during World...
...well within the performance range of high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat. And V-L ammunition would be ideal for aircraft cannon, which sometimes jam when high-G forces produced during maneuvers prevent the ejection of cartridges...
...Wissotzky & Co. of Tel Aviv, its own brew was a major weapon in the war against the Arabs. Or so it would seem from post-victory advertisements that the tea company has been running in Israeli newspapers. "The gallant fighters of the Tank Corps," explain the ads, "appreciate a good cup of tea as the most invigorating drink. That is why the designer of the famous British Centurion provided facilities for the crews to brew tea inside their tanks. A good soldier will endure every hardship, but he will not give up his glass of tea. Wissotzky Tea, of course...