Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile solo flight between New York and Paris. With the backing of some young St. Louis businessmen and $2,000 from his own savings, Lindbergh ordered a plane built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego to his peculiar specifications; it was in effect one giant gasoline tank with wings, a propeller and a bucket seat. He named it The Spirit of St. Louis, and in May 1927 flew it to New York...
...Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another alternative. It turned to the Rand Corp. for an analysis of the problem. Lo and behold, the respected think tank recently produced what seemed at first glance to be model advice...
...immediate effect of the Watergate denouement was to prompt an almost global wave of admiration for America's institutions. "It can't be true," said Simon Haj, 31, a Beirut taxi driver. "You need a tank to remove a President in the Arab world." Said Brazil's leading political pundit, Carlos Castello Branco, just before the resignation: "Nixon was never morally smaller than now, but the U.S. was never morally greater. If the U.S. had no other justification for world leadership, this alone would entitle it to present itself as a leader and inspirer in a world...
Driving a five-axle tank trailer, he drove the course with incredible ease, hitting no barricades and never stopping. He wound the truck backwards through the serpentine course without a moment's hesitation, and finished in nearly three minutes under the allotted time...
Hard Lessons. Chance nonetheless pushed ahead. Tank tests were indeed glowing, and he was convinced that Mariner's sawed-off stern would produce less water resistance along the boat's hull and increase her speed. The results, of course, could not have been worse. Mariner lost her first two meetings with Courageous by four and eight minutes at a regatta on Long Island Sound in June...