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...Aunt Gert and Uncle Walter Snyder worked for the Scrantons for some 42 years. At Hobe Sound, Fla., one night, a tanker was torpedoed off the coast. The "Duchess," as you called her, and my Aunt Gert and Uncle Walt helped all of the survivors into the elegantly furnished Scranton winter home. About 100 oil-soaked sailors were given blankets, cigarettes, coffee, sandwiches. Mrs. Scranton was up all night helping to make the men comfortable...
...half after proclamation of the blockade, the Navy intercepted the Soviet tanker Bucharest. Oil had been left off the proscribed list because the Administration did not want to draw the line on an item that might be a necessity of life for Cuba. The talker was allowed to pass without inspection...
...ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will be installed, so that the ship does not have to spend months in a fitting dock after launching. As the bow of one is being completed, the stern of the next will start down the line. With a 40,000-ton tanker, the yard will halve the normal 40-week period between keel-laying and sea trials...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...
...return trip to earth. NASA now thinks that this bizarre-sounding system will prove the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to get the job done. But cautious NASA scientists will continue to study EOR (Earth Orbital Rendezvous), in which a moon-bound spaceship will first refuel from a tanker circling in orbit around the earth...