Word: tanker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this may be remains to be seen, but Standard Oil Co. at once ordered a tanker to dock at Santiago and discharge its cargo. While Col. Grove was in power this tanker hovered off shore, refusing to dock though there was an acute gasoline shortage at Santiago. In a word the rich U. S. citizens who used to have every confidence in rich Ambassador Davila, had confidence last week that his "Sane" Socialism will not hurt the billion-dollar foreign interests in Chile...
Last week, on the eighth day after he had left Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...
Federal District Judge Ernest F. Cochran of Charleston, S. C. last week saved the entire navy of Santo Domingo from being swept from the seas. The Dominican fleet consists of one ship, a lumbering motor tanker named Arminda. Last November the Arminda sailed from Charleston for home with a cargo and 39 Dominicans returning to their country after fleeing the hurricane of 1930. The tanker ran into dirty weather. It was forced to signal for help. Promptly the Norwegian tanker Norwold shifted her course, picked up the floundering Arminda and towed her back to Charleston...
...Wesley Warne, 77, retired Methodist Episcopal Bishop of India (1900-28); of pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn. Once while in Mesopotamia, he learned unexpectedly that no ship sailed in time for him to attend a church conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Undaunted, he radioed a U. S.-bound oil tanker for passage, was told that he would be taken aboard only if he signed on as an engine-room wiper. For three torrid weeks, 66-year-old Bishop Warne wiped engines, was still in greasy dungarees when met at the docks...
...completely. On one engine, the Nautilus grunted through quiet seas at 8 knots. A gale came up. All night the crippled submarine fought the waves. By morning Sir Hubert decided he had better wireless for help. The U. S. S. Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business...