Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tanker full of DDT were to be broken up in a storm tomorrow, the way so many oil tankers already have been, that DDT would be enough to slow the photosynthesizing micro-plants of the oceans. These plants produce ninety percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. In as much time as it took us to breath the remaining oxygen. It would all grind to a halt once...
Aboard the mammoth oil tanker S.S. Manhattan last week, latter-day explorers could relive the ordeals in the comfort of the ship's library. After traveling aboard the Manhattan on its epic journey, TIME'S Joe Rychetnik filed this story...
...Humble Oil & Refining Co., which had launched the $40 million venture, seemed determined not only to prove that the Northwest Passage could be tamed, but also that it could be tamed in style. Even as the 1,005-ft. ship rammed through 40-ft. polar packs, it moved smoothly. In their specially fitted cabins above the waterline, newsmen and other visitors barely heard the deep throb of the Manhattan's huge 43,000-h.p. engines...
...completing the final lap, the enormity of its success was overshadowed by fear of the consequences. In Canada's Parliament, legislators brought pressure on the government to declare the Northwest Passage Canadian territorial waters. Conservationists, too, were apprehensive. They warned that, because of the low annual temperatures, an oil spill in the passage would take decades, perhaps centuries, to dissipate. As for the oilmen at Humble, they were not willing to commit themselves beyond the Manhattan's return trip and another voyage next spring...
...went to M.I.T. to see what was being done on auto safety," Nader said. "No one was interested, neither faculty or students. They were working on problems useful to corporate demands-oil companies were interested in the geology of the West. What business did not think important was not important to M.I.T...