Word: rotterdam
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...Although Middle East oil production is near its prewar level, the refineries of Western Europe will continue to feel the pinch for some time to come. Reason: until the Suez Canal is un plugged, oil tankers must take a two-week detour around the Cape of Good Hope. At Rotterdam's Europoort, whose massive refineries get 70% of their oil from the Middle East, companies have dipped into reserves while eagerly awaiting the homeward-bound tankers. "They're out there floating around somewhere," says Theo P. van den Bergh, general manager of Shell Netherlands Refining...
...that the area has come to be known as the "Spaghetti Bowl." In its own subterranean surge, Western Europe seems to be cooking up a sort of alphabet soup. Ten years abuilding, its 3,000-mile crude-oil-carrying network includes such giants as the 283-mile R.R.P. (for Rotterdam-Rhine Pipeline), the 485-mile S.E.P.L. (South European Pipeline), and the 562-mile C.E.L. (Central European Line). Engineers are now making final tests on the newest, richest ingredient of all: the $192 million T.A.L...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
...they rise! London, 620 ft. Stuttgart, 702 ft. Dortmund, 715 ft. So much for Rotterdam's 365-ft.-tall Euro-mast...
...outdone, the rival Dutch have announced a fiveyear, $218 million plan to create deepwater berths for 165,000-tonners at Rotterdam...