Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although technicians could stay in the building for only brief periods, everything they saw suggested that the impossible had happened: the reactor had suddenly boiled up in a runaway atomic reaction. In thousandths of a second, its water coolant had been turned into superheated steam that ruptured the reactor tank. Best guess was that some of the cadmium control rods (which are inserted to stop the nuclear reaction) had somehow been lifted out of position...
...Army demonstrated a cheap ($30), light (4½ Ibs.) tank killer: a one-man bazooka with an expendable plastic firing tube. Each firing tube may be used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
...hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used to test the big ship's generators. (Said Pipe Fitter Solomon Fried: it was like a "carom shot at billiards.") The fuel gushed out over the hangar deck, poured down a bomb elevator well to the deck below. There a spark from a welder...
...conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that a reporter aboard wrote, "It looked like the dipping wing tank was going to hit the wave crests...
BRAZEN CHARIOTS, by Robert Crisp. The most vivid of all books about tank fighting in World War II, by a British officer who fought against Rommel in Africa...