Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrific task to guarantee that the Canal will remain open while we still permit commercial traffic through it: Yet it is unthinkable that we would suppress commercial traffic. So we always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind was the danger that some supposedly innocent tanker, tramp steamer or fishing boat on its way through the locks might suddenly turn out to be a floating time bomb. How acute, ever-present and unpredictable that peril is, the Army learned last week when its own transport, the U. S. S. Republic, docked in Panama City...
...Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk by a Rumanian mine. Proponents of the Nazi-Communist war pointed with delighted alarm to the gathering of 330,000 German troops far north in Norway against the Finnish border, to which Russia has a right of way. But it seemed highly dubious that either Germany or Russia wanted...
...interior had been crippled by repeated air bombing. Most Southampton warehouses were destroyed or damaged. The King George V graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates. The Empress basin was blocked by a sunken tanker, its wharves torn by gaping holes. Leaving port the master of the Magalhaes counted 23 wrecks in the Solent. "South England is dying," he concluded, "no miracle can stem the tide...
...handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...bases at El Aden and El Gubbi. These three spots have been targets for incessant British air raids, to prevent an expeditionary force from getting organized. Last week torpedo-carrying Fairey Swordfish planes of the Naval Air Service climaxed these attacks by striking transports, supply ships and a tanker in Tobruch harbor...