Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Page One treatment for attending a champagne-&-blini party (for visiting Russian literary lion Konstantin Simonov) aboard a Soviet tanker off the California coast. Before the week was out, California Senator Jack B. Tenney had promised "a full-dress investigation"-"to learn whether there is a collaboration with potential enemies of our country...
...industry is skeptical about the pipe lines' use. At capacity, the industry estimates that Big Inch can haul oil cheaper than tankers; 16? a barrel v. 18.3?. But it doubts that Big Inch, which worked at capacity during the war, can be kept there in peace. As soon as the flow drops to two-thirds of capacity, then costs per barrel rise above that of tankers. Unless the RFC can prove differently, there may be no buyers for its $146,100,000 property. Last week it put its best sales foot forward. It cut Big Inch...
Despite this outpouring, there is still not enough oil. By the first quarter of 1946, total Allied requirements, civilian and military, will be 154,000 barrels a day greater than the supply. One reason: a tanker carrying oil from the Gulf Coast to Europe burned up only 8,000 barrels on the way over and back; the long trip to the Pacific bases eats up 21,000 barrels...
...improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...