Word: tanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs...
...example: a few days ago a Tommy (in the Tank Corps) was brought in by one of us. Both his arms were thoroughly smashed, his right leg was broken and badly gashed, hip gashed, and he had bad body wounds. Not a word of self-pity! He thanked us for treating him well, smiled and said he wouldn't have our job for anything (sic)-too hazardous! Next day he died...
...officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
Only in the Battle of the Bulge, where the tanks, halftracks and tank destroyers lay strewn in the woods almost as thick as acorns, did their boast fail. There the job took six weeks...
...roving field units with replacement parts. In the hard, fast dash across France, motors were worn to a mass of rattling hardware. Replacements arrived, but too slowly. Then Army Service Forces made a deal that produced replacements in France. Within a month after liberation Gnome & Rhone was rebuilding Continental tank motors; Gen eral Motors France was turning out motors for G.M.'s own famed "Six by Six" truck, the workhorse of the Army. Citroen, which had been given a black eye for collaboration, pitched in. Even Renault, whose Paris plant had several times been solemnly pronounced "destroyed" by bombs...