Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1950s owned a string of gas stations in Austria. When the Nazis came in 1938, the young entrepreneur fled to Paris and later to England. Broke and speaking only fractured English, he joined the Pioneer Corps and from there secured a transfer to the Royal Engineers as a battlefield tank mechanic...
...Germans as Franz Levai, Austrian Jew, he changed his name to Frank Lloyd. It is said that he chose the name because of its reassuring similarity to Lloyd's of London. On Dday, his unit landed in Normandy. A brave and aggressive soldier, Lloyd fought in the tank corps across Europe. In a tank explosion in Germany shortly before the war's end he was severely wounded and temporarily blinded...
Remember the tiger the oil industry put in your tank not too many years ago? Well, the U.S. Senate has that tiger by the tail, and is trying to pull it in an effort to ease the nation's fuel short age. The legislators last week tacked a "sense of Congress" resolution onto an oil allotment bill, urging states to lower speed limits on federal aid roads by 10 m.p.h. or to 55 m.p.h., whichever works out higher. The resolution, which each state can heed or disregard as it chooses, is based on the desperate but indubitable logic that...
...extraordinary Yankee ingenuity in fashioning Skylab's makeshift sunshade, refused to give up. Experimenting with duplicates of tools aboard Skylab, they devised techniques for cutting, sawing and even prying off the metal. Practicing with these tools in simulated conditions of weightlessness in NASA'S big water test tank at Huntsville, Ala., Backup Astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Ed Gibson demonstrated that the implements might well work in space...
...share equal billing with people in these photographs. Things also seem to be equally demanding. "I bought the Doughboy pool for David and the kids, and now no one wants to take the responsibility for cleaning it," one father remarks mournfully as he scoops debris from the large plastic tank. Neatness counts. A youth, balancing in the boughs of a scrawny tree, is picking dead leaves. "My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the trees and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy...