Word: skandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine new Diesel tanker, the 10,044-ton Skandinavia, made fast to a New York dock. Built in Germany for Texas Corp. as part payment for pre-war U. S. crude oil, she had reached and crossed the blockaded Atlantic without adventure...
That Great Britain's North Sea patrol let her pass was not surprising. That Germany let her go was. For Allied commerce leans heavily on neutral shipping, and the Norwegian-flag Skandinavia (which will run from the Gulf to South America) will free replacements for some of the 100,000 tons of tankers the Germans have sunk to date. Probable explanation: confabs between Texas Corp.'s Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber and the German Admiralty...
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