Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...
...body was not that of Charles Herbert Koch, but of Curtis Herman Koch of Oak Park, Ill. They had been in training at Great Lakes Naval Station at the same time. Curtis Herman was killed when the tanker on which he was a gunner was torpedoed off the Atlantic Coast...
...being fully utilized, as there is no surplus for them to bring East. Thus a total of close to 1,400,000 barrels a day is in sight for the East Coast, even before the new Texas-Illinois pipeline is built and without counting on any help from the tanker convoys, which have been bringing something like 200,000 barrels...
...agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2½?-a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak...
...Eastern seaboard gasoline leak up through its price ceiling again last week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel...