Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before it reached the coast, the storm raced crazily over almost a thousand miles of sea. It caught a seaman from the tanker Myriam, washed him overboard. Storm warnings flew from the tip of Florida to southern Texas. Four hundred Army planes in the Louisiana maneuvers were ordered into Texas, out of harm...
Launched during the day were five of the new Ugly Ducklings, rechristened Liberty Ships; seven fancy cargo-&-passenger ships of the Maritime Commission's prewar building program; a tanker; an Army transport. And they were only a small part of the program: 1,200 new merchant ships, of 12,500,000 deadweight tons...
With the shortage presented in terms of tank-car and tanker capacity, there were bound to be public gripes at the gas curfew, Senate swats at the unpopular man who thought it up. Mr. Ickes had evidently tried to sell his conservation program on the wrong basis...
Into narrow twisting Vladivostok one day last week slid the bulk of the U.S. oil tanker, L. P. St. Clair. To battling Russia she brought barrels of high octane gasoline. Next day the Associated was berthed beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against...
Britain, on the other hand, sits comparatively pretty. Though she must import all but 5% of her oil, she has access by sea to perhaps 85% of the world's supply. Her consumption is 100,000,000 barrels a year, her problem, transportation. To supplement her own huge tanker fleet she has added Norwegian, Dutch, French and Belgian tonnage, as well as 80 U.S. tankers...