Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boom,' and it went off." Anderson also tried to establish that Longet was reckless by nature. He called Williams to testify against his ex, but the singer defended her. He denied that he had told an Aspen neighbor the day after the shooting that Longet was a "crazy gal who likes to drive fast, ski fast and take chances...
Another tanker alarm: one day last week the skipper of the Liberian-registered Harmonic, just arrived in New York harbor with a cargo of 25 million gal. of Libyan crude oil, put in an urgent call to the Coast Guard. Possibly the result of heavy storms encountered at sea, the ship had sprung a small leak, spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last...
...ports, tanker traffic has increased proportionately as the nation has turned heavily to imports to meet its growing thirst for fuel. In 1966 the U.S. imported 940 million bbl. of oil and petroleum products. Now nearly three times as much is arriving in U.S. ports?about 300 million gal...
Fortunately, major accidents involving tankers have been infrequent, but those that do occur are spectacular. The Liberian ship Torrey Canyon spilled over 30 million gal. of oil when it went aground off England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when it grounded in 1974 in the Strait of Magellan, polluting an area where Charles Darwin had gone ashore more than a century earlier to study animals and plants. The Jacob Maersk lost or burned some 26 million gal. when it exploded off Portugal...
...marine organisms have been blamed not on the oil but on the detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that the oil was still spreading along the bottom at 40-ft. depths, covering more than 5,000 acres offshore and polluting 500 acres of tidal rivers and marshes...