Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain will maintain her oil supply no U. S. oilmen knew for sure last week. With Norway's tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line...
...carrier Glorious (22,500-ton sister ship of the Courageous, crew of 1,216) used as a base for air operations against Narvik, was an easy prey to the 11-inch guns of the Nazi warships, as were also the 19,840-ton transport null the 5,666-ton tanker Oilpioneer, and the destroyers Acasta and Ardent. The Allied Expeditionary Force began to evacuate...
...Germans claimed to have sunk the $20,000,000 British aircraft carrier Glorious in a naval engagement in the far reaches of the North Sea. In addition, the Germans say they sunk a British destroyer, the 21,000-ton troop transport Orama, the naval oil tanker Pioneer and a modern submarine chaser. In London, the British said they had been informed that there was "contact" between British and German vessels in northern waters but the Admiralty offered no further statement...
British agents having bought up or leased all the loose Danube tanker barges in sight, Nazis were relieved last week when Yugoslavia-through which the Danube winds for some 200 miles-released seven big German oil barges which had been held for special transit permits...
...afternoon last week, at latitude 22:10 North, longitude 51:28 West-1,900 miles east of Havana, Cuba, on the regular trade route from Barbados to England-the wireless operator of the British tanker El Ciervo began tapping out an alarm...