Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama-registered tanker was torpedoed off the Island of Aruba in a renewed outburst of Submarine activity and headquarters of the U.S. Army at Port of Spain, Trinidad, said that two vessels were damaged by explosions apparently caused by torpedoes...
...half weeks the reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted...
...Harold Ickes said the East Coast oil situation, owing to tanker sinkings and diversion, was "tight and getting tighter." This time, no one discounted his fears...
Ensign Thomas Quimby '40, a graduate of the Business School's Naval supply Corps, was aboard the naval tanker U.S.S. Neches, sunk recently by an enemy submarine. He reached port safely, his parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan revealed yesterday...
...Atlantic-Pacific trade-not to be confused with the coastwide trade, which includes Gulf-Atlantic tanker service...