Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast of the Caribbean island of Aruba, fringed with coral, into its deep port fringed with oil-storage tanks, moved two startling apparitions last week. Their shape was familiar, for Aruba has seen many a tanker. But the flags painted on their sides and flying at the poop were, of all flags, Italian...
...mill hands. Their evidence: 1) most of the chiseling was in the tests of the chemical content and tensile strength of the steel plates; 2) false entries on the test sheets were a "common practice." Big point in the investigation: Did faulty Carnegie-Illinois steel cause the Kaiser-built tanker Schenectady to break in half? The answer: yes & no. The American Bureau of Shipping report chiefly blamed poor welding ("There was neglect [in] adhering rigidly to established welding procedures . . . there were insufficient numbers of trained, experienced welders and shipfitters"). But the Bureau added that the tanker's plates lacked...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
...when there was bad news about Kaiser-like the failure of his $6,000,000 Permanente magnesium plant in California-nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...