Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHILLELAGH is a stubby little (about 50 Ibs.; 43 in.) missile launched from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan...
...produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
Such psychological interpretation, one must suggest, is about as subtle as a tank. What is this if not "the ready explanation that springs first to mind," against which Hughes was militating a few paragraphs earlier? It may be right; it also may well be wrong...
...support, the geodesic dome uses less structural material to cover more space than any other building ever devised. The diameter of the one built for the Union Tank Car Co. in Baton Rouge is the length of a football field. Next year the Union of South Africa expects to be using geodesic huts for low-cost housing. And within a decade it is quite possible, if Bucky has his way, that cities will roof their centers over with vast translucent domes, beneath which mass air conditioning and weatherproofing will enable houses and stores to be constructed only for privacy...
...forged receipts represent oils that were either missing or never existed at all. Even worse, say investigators, many of the tanks in which the nonexistent oil was supposed to be stored did not exist either. By an intricate system of leasing and subleasing, Allied managed to convince a lot of people that it had stored nearly a billion pounds of oil in an American Express subsidiary's tank farm in New Jersey that has a capacity of only 500 million pounds...