Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives; construction is fast, cheap, would involve small amounts of critical materials (10% as much steel as a 2,000-ton freighter) would use labor from the building trades, where the manpower shortage is least stringent; the ratio of cargo-to-ship weight would equal that of a tanker...
...half, us in the middle of them all the time." Airplanes dropped depth bombs, which made a lot of noise but did no damage. This fight was also within sight of a staring audience on the shore, which inspired the mild Klakring and his crew. They sank a tanker and an armed freighter...
Almost as casually as it would ship a tanker full of aviation gasoline or a freighter full of strategic materials, the U.S. Government is now shipping to its allies entire plants to manufacture the goods on the spot. Though that may sound like a Gargantuan job for the overburdened U.S. Merchant Marine, actually such shipments can often save both space and time in the long run. Last week's news of factories being knocked down for shipment to the United Nations...
...Battle Lost. What had caused the debacle of Rommel? He had probably lost the battle weeks before it was joined. He had lost it at sea as Allied planes and British subs choked off his supplies. Reuters reported that in the past six weeks not a single Axis tanker had been able to cross the Mediterranean Sea. During the battle itself the Allies had sunk more than 50,000 tons of Axis ships that were trying to carry to Rommel oil and materiel. Rommel may have known that the battle was lost when he went to Berlin a month...
They pulled a gasping tanker from the spot where the bubbles boiled up, and another, and another with a broken arm. The lieutenant who had been leading his tank was safe, clinging to the bridge, wet to the waist, but the sergeant had been crushed between the two tanks...