Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handy neutrals (The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greece). The United States Lines last fortnight transferred to Belgian registry eight ships totaling 65,900 tons, now available for British service. Together with Norway and The Netherlands (20%), Great Britain and France in 1939 owned half the world's tanker tonnage...
...fine new Diesel tanker, the 10,044-ton Skandinavia, made fast to a New York dock. Built in Germany for Texas Corp. as part payment for pre-war U. S. crude oil, she had reached and crossed the blockaded Atlantic without adventure...
...Altmark to be unarmed, were unaware of any prisoners aboard. Would the British please respect Norway's neutrality, withdraw from her waters? Captain Vian & mates pulled out beyond the three-mile limit where they lay watchfully, awaiting further Admiralty instructions. While they waited, along came the German tanker Baldur which, accosted by the destroyer Ivanhoe, scuttled and fired herself...
...much, Germany's has been so overworked of late that it has begun seriously to deteriorate. Despite all the bluff about Russia supplying oil to the Reich, it was noted last week that at the Rumanian port of Constantsa on the Black Sea, the first post-pact Russian tanker with oil consigned to Germany had just arrived. The shipment-12,000 tons-was to be refined in Rumania and then shipped by rail through Hungary to the Reich-a long, expensive process...
...mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...