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...size of The Netherlands' mammoth Groningen gas field (widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum-gas is becoming Europe's new glamor fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Gas Fever & Coal Chills | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...German waters, including one by the German-American North Sea Consortium that includes Socony Mobil, Indiana Standard and Esso. The consortium is prepared to spend $25 million this year and next drilling for gas off the German coast, and will soon start to drill near the island of Borkum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Looking for the Sixpence | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Battle of Britain | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Score--Brooks 14, Eliot 12. Substitutions--Brooks: Burnstein. Points--Lyons 4, Corey 6, Borkum 4, Cann 4, Hodson 2, Shapiro 4, Clos 2. Referee--Dennis. WINTHROP KIRKLAND Howe, r.f. l.f., Millar Polon, l.f. r.f., Robinson Maiullo, c. c., Seder Zdanowicz, r.g. l.g., Miller Sapienza, l.g. r.g., Jewell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

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