Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every car and tractor, in every tank and plane?oil. Behind almost every lighted glass tower, giant industrial plant or little workshop, computer and moon rocket and television signal?oil. Behind fertilizers, drugs, chemicals, synthetic textiles and thousands of other products?the same substance that until recently was taken for granted as a seemingly inexhaustible and obedient treasure. Few noted the considerable historic irony that the world's most advanced civilizations depended for this treasure on countries generally considered weak, compliant and disunited. Now all that has changed, and the result has been a major economic and political dislocation throughout...
...another severe problem is the drastic delay in deliveries that is being caused by inflation-breeding shortages of aluminum, steel and electronic print ed circuits. As a result, orders have backed up dramatically, leaving the Army short 1,857 tanks. To make mat ters worse, Secretary of State Kissinger has sold more than 1,000 tanks from U.S. inventories to Israel to build up that nation's inventories. The Army is planning to subsidize some capital expenditures of the Birdsboro Corp. of Birdsboro, Pa., because it is one of two remaining plants capable of casting turrets and hulls...
...which has always prided itself on exporting capital, technology and management. His idea provoked a dour response from Washington, but it was at least followed by a rash of American humor. Cartoons showed robed Arabs manning Stateside gas pumps and a camel replacing the tiger in the tank...
...ground, Israel is stronger in both numbers and gadgetry. Of its 1,728 tanks, 840 were put out of commission in the October fighting. The Israelis were able, however, to repair 300 of them; in addition, they captured 420 tanks from the Arab armies and have received 450 more from the U.S. The net gain: 330. Another 600 are on order from the U.S. The U.S. M60, mainstay of the Israeli tank force, proved itself to be superior to even the Soviet T-62 in accuracy, gun range and shell penetration. Equipped with computer range finders, the M-60 allowed...
...supply effort has been so swift and generous that some American military units at home and in Europe have been severely squeezed. Production of the M-60 tank is limited to 40 a month, and since most of the tanks shipped to Israel have been M-60s (along with some older M-48s), American tank units are hard-pressed for vehicles. At Fort Knox, the chief tank training center in the U.S., the few tanks available are rotated from one school to another. The drain on American reserves has caused some grumbling in the Pentagon, where generals complain that...