Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report, all wrapped up in a film, took the viewers (including many Union stockholders, who got letters well in advance) across oilfields, up to the tops of derricks, through refinery gates and aboard the company's seven-tanker fleet. Now & again the camera veered back into a board room and focused on Union Oil Co. of California's President Reese Hale Taylor. He gave an item-by-item explanation of the company's annual financial report, the first ever televised...
McGowan told Gerstley, and H. Norman Richards '50, in Richards' room in Dunster House, that he had been in Bangor, Maine, and was hitch-hiking to New York, where, he said, he was employed on a Standard Oil Company tanker due to leave for Rangoon within the next few days...
...native of Argentina and nearby countries, the nutria is a rodent that looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
After this dragonfly mating, the hose is flushed out with nitrogen and hauled back to the tanker. The contact lines part at a special "weak link" and are hauled...
...savings and advantages, a refueled Tudor V (British South American Airways Ltd.) could take off from Lisbon with 44 instead of the present 26 passengers, and only 800 gallons of gasoline. In the air it could get more gasoline from a tanker and fly toward Dakar, where another tanker would give it enough fuel to fly on to Natal. The airline could collect 18 extra fares and scrap its expensive Dakar base (passengers would be spared the yellow-fever shots required for a stop at Dakar...