Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Tank Terror. Like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the North Koreans attacked early on a Sunday morning (June 25), and struck south in a six-pronged drive, with a heavy force of armor aimed at Seoul. U.S. intelligence had reported that North Korean troops were massed on the border, but the enemy had achieved surprise by a prior series of false alarms in the form of border raids, so that no one paid enough attention this time. This time it was not a raid...
Horrid Word. When the first U.S. Sherman tanks (mounting 76-mm. guns) arrived, they were smashed by the harder-hitting 858 of the enemy's T-34 tanks. Thereafter the U.S. avoided tank-to-tank slugging until heavier Pershings, with 90-mm. guns, began to reach Korea at the end of July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River...
...light tank used to cost $25,000; today a light tank costs $175,000 (though mass production might bring the price down as much...
Last week, AEC Engineers John F. Newell and C. W. Christenson told about a promising solution of the waste plutonium problem. They found that certain "zoogleal" bacteria (which form gelatinous masses in sewage-disposal systems) have a hearty appetite for plutonium. So they filled a tank-with stones inoculated with bacteria, and trickled through it artificial sewage made of water, sugar, ammonium phosphate and flour. When the bacteria were well established, they were fed some of the deadly waste water. The helpful bugs removed from 90% to 95% of the plutonium. A series of such tanks could reduce the water...
...companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need for 3-5-in. superbazookas to stop the Korean Reds' T-34 tanks, Ohio's Aeronca Mfg. Corp., which had been making tank killers for only four months, recently tripled production...