Word: tankerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Confirmed in command of the First Armored Corps last week was Major General Charles L. Scott, who until lately was also acting commander of the entire force. Out of hospital, back on duty as commander of the Armored-Force last week went Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a pioneer tanker who fought for recognition of armored units long before Hitler sold the idea of a separate Armored Force to the U.S. General Staff. Wan, reedy-thin in mufti, General Chaffee for his homecoming to Fort Knox had a review of the First Division. His men were happy to have...
...Naval District, sent messages to the captains of twelve German and Italian vessels lying in harbor, summoning them ashore for a conference. As soon as the skippers set foot on land they were arrested. Boarding parties of Marines then took possession of the ships. Aboard one, the Italian tanker Fede, they reported finding a TNT bomb rigged to explode when the engine was turned over. Another Italian tanker, the Atlas, was already sinking when they boarded her. Her skipper, Captain Lelio Fazzi, had not been lured ashore, had stayed to scuttle his ship. The Marines clambered back into their launches...
Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire...
...were under construction at Houston, New Orleans and Wilmington, N. C. At Mobile, Ala., new Gulf Shipbuilding Co. yards were working on their first contract (four cargo ships worth about $12,000,000). Norfolk, Va. had a newcomer in Welding Shipyards, Inc. (starting off with a $4,000,000 tanker...
Sixteen seamen stood before the Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division of Britain's High Court one day last week. Fifteen of them were survivors of the British tanker San Demetrio, veterans of the Jervis Bay convoy (TIME, Nov. 25); the other, a representative of a dead comrade. What they had to add to the saga was as epic as the battle itself...