Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While battle flags flew off Java last week (see p. 15), the blue peter fluttered from yardarms at sunny San Diego and Houston, at blustery Halifax, at hot Aruba and Bahrein. The tanker fleets of the United Nations were busy. Even if the Dutch East Indies were lost, the Allies would still control 93% of the world's crude-oil production, 88% of refining facilities, almost 90% of tanker tonnage...
...with dry-cargo tonnage (see p. 10 ), the lonely sea miles of distance offset this huge preponderance of tonnage. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) alone operates qr controls some 2,200,000 tons, nearly six times the entire Jap tanker tonnage (430,000), and twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons...
FORT PIERCE, Fla.-The U. S. tanker Cities Service Empire, 8,103 tons, was hit by three torpedoes and sank in flames in the Atlantic Ocean south of here early Sunday, it was disclosed tonight...
...East Coast the sixteenth victim of Nazi submarines, Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed, went down...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...