tank town

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They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom.

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In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.

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Life in and around their pelagic tank town is the subject of this eerie, colorful documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a successor to his awesome epic, The Silent World.

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I've pulled the Washington on tank town weeklies, trimmed boiler plate on all-home-print, and attained the eminence of space writer on county seat dailies.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent