Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with the new rulers, and the main reason is Libyan oil. Since the '67 closure of Suez, Libyan exports have doubled because high-grade Libyan oil lies closer to Europe without the canal than most Arabian oil. Thirty-eight companies, mostly American and British, presently pump about 3.7 million barrels a day. Libya now ranks as the third largest oil exporter (after Venezuela and Iran). Since the government receives $1 on each barrel, oil accounts for 80% of Libya's national income...
...year-old fire engine. Still, it has taken official cognizance of the Arthur Fiedler Hook and Ladder Company. The Boston Pops conductor, a lifelong fire buff who owns several hundred fire helmets, was all ready for his first alarm after his family presented him with the venerable pump truck for his 75th birthday...
...shot through the highly pressurized skin of a jetliner could cause a plane to explode in flight" [Nov. 21]. It is doubtful if a man could physically carry enough small arms ammunition on board to cause the aircraft to "explode." Each bullet hole would cause the pressurization system to pump more air into the cabin. The noise level would certainly increase, but it would take literally hundreds of bullet holes to exceed the capacity of the system...
Then she started to pump me for information. I decided not to let her have any without a struggle...
...compensate for loss of the canal, shippers have turned to using huge supertankers of 200,000 tons and more, and to sending cargo from Asia to Europe via Seattle overland to New York. Egypt and Israel are building pipelines to pump Middle East oil to Mediterranean ports. Though a reopened Suez might have a diminished role in world trade, it would still be very busy. Freighters, liners and warships making up 80% of the world's tonnage could travel it fully loaded, as could tankers up to 70,000 tons. Even supertankers, whose fully loaded hulls are too deep...