Word: tanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test drivers at the Chrysler tank arsenal threatened to strike because the proving grounds were dusty. When the company sprinkled them, the drivers threatened to strike because they were...
...trouble started at the Chrysler Corp.'s huge Dodge main plant. When the company fired eight airplane gear cutters, 13,500 workers walked out. Production of tank transmissions, trucks, antiaircraft guns, engines for B-29 Superfortresses and rocket shells ground to a halt. A war of words ensued. The company charged the eight dismissed men with loafing and insubordination, said they would not produce 184 gears on machines capable of 225. The union charged that the rate had been raised from 108, lifted the cry of "speedup," said Chrysler was deliberately stirring up trouble in the hope of wrecking...
Beyond the Roer. From the air in a Piper Cub the tank drive was a thing of the sheerest military beauty: First came a long row of throbbing tanks moving like heavy dark beetles over the green cabbage fields of Germany in a wide swath-many, many tanks in a single row abreast. Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering...
...take München-Gladbach yesterday in one of the weirdest actions of the war. The resistance consisted mainly of isolated detachments of nondescript troops who fought briefly at street corners. Those who were left surrendered quickly and with relief. This is the way it would go. A tank passed us and went down the absolutely lonely and deserted street through the ranks of neat and excellent two-story stone buildings, the kind of street that gives you that terribly lonely, naked feeling of snipers and trouble around you, the kind of street out of which you back your jeep...
Zhukov had apparently caught the enemy by surprise at a point where he had no deep defenses. Russian tank rumbled straight north, covered 62 miles in four days and came up to the Baltic dunes near Kolberg. Zhukov had timed his drive with a Baltic-bound thrust of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky; the timing was perfect. Rokossovsky's forces simultaneously burst into Koslin, 24 miles east of Kolberg, then fanned out eastward more than 20 miles along...