Word: tanker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...
...discovery of $500,000 defalcations from Standard-Vacuum Transportation Co. (Socony-Vacuum tanker line) by Assistant Paymaster William C. Head. 50 (TIME, Dec. 12); a sentence of three to six years imprisonment; in Manhattan...
Fortnight ago, Paymaster Edward Connaughton of Socony-Vacuum Transportation Co.'s tanker line committed suicide. "Tell Head," read the note he left, "he is the biggest crook in the world." Last week Socony-Vacuum found out what he meant. William C. Head, 50, of Brooklyn, paymaster of the company's barge line, confessed that over a period of 25 years he had stolen $300,000 by padding payrolls. The company got its next surprise when it found itself in the fur and chicken business. Paymaster Head had invested his stealings in the model Twin Brooks & Hudson Fur Farms...
...fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse of the moon darkened the Mediterranean...
...oilmen spoke of "disturbing effects," pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. was a member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich crude from Batum, already consigned to La Salle Petroleum...