Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versatile tanks that take naturally to water, which are being assembled at General Motors' Cleveland plant. The Sheridan, the most revolutionary tank since World War II, is the U.S.'s first with a cannon capable of firing both conventional shells and guided missiles. It can be air-dropped from C-130 or C-141 cargo planes (by eight 100-ft.-wide parachutes) without damage, swim like a turtle across water obstacles. After testing, it will go into operation within a year. An even more versatile vehicle, the MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank...
...bought cheaply. Its extreme volatility and the - 423° F. temperature necessary to keep it in liquid form make it difficult to deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around its fuel tank in an uneven mixture of liquid and gas. And unless liquid hydrogen can be kept at the bottom of the tank, it cannot reach the valves through which it is pumped to the combustion chamber...
...Question. Under such conditions, how could an engine in orbit be restarted for a flight to the moon? Engineers speculated that if an Apollo vehicle were accelerated slightly, the inertia of the liquid hydrogen would force it toward the bottom of the tank. To provide that acceleration, they installed controllable, backward-pointing vents at the top of the SIV B's fuel tanks. They hoped that the gases gradually produced by the evaporating liquid fuel and oxidizer could be released into space to provide slight thrust and acceleration...
...bombs in 25 minutes on North Viet Nam's second biggest petroleum depot (202,000 barrels), 3½ miles northeast of the capital city's center. At about the same time, A-4s from the U.S.S. Constellation blasted a smaller, 48,000-barrel fuel-tank area at Do Son, twelve miles southeast of Haiphong...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...