Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week railroad men and oil men sat down to make a deal on freight rates. The roads offered roughly a 50% cut in their present tariffs, which are currently about six times the tanker rates. The oil companies, hoping for a bigger rate cut, dickered with each other on ways to prorate among themselves the higher cost of rail shipment. Once the price deal is made the carriers will get their chance to prove what they can do - and the whole East will cheer for it nervously...
Hitler Missed the Tanker...
Seeking the facts about the Atlantic Seaboard gasoline shortage caused by the transfer of 50 U.S. tankers to Britain, a Senate subcommittee last week heard that 1) there is no shortage yet, 2) any possible shortage will diminish after Christmas, 3) by next April the U.S. may have a tanker surplus...
Caught in a cross fire from suspicious Senators, Davies admitted that even the 27,800,000 deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...From tankers Land jumped to pipelines, revealed that the Maritime Commission is dead against them. Reason: they take too much steel, take too long to build. As a substitute he suggested reinforced concrete barges. One 14,000-ton tanker pulling such a barge could-after allowing for decreased speed-increase its annual pay load 27%; by pulling two barges...