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...summer of 1947, Casey organized a company called the American Overseas Tanker Corp. He put $20,000 of his own money into the company and raised another $80,000 from a group of stockholders, including such gilt-edged names as the late former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Julius C. Holmes, now U.S. Minister in London. Casey then made arrangements with the Maritime Commission to buy five surplus tankers (original cost: $3,000,000 each) for about $8,500,000. Next, he made an agreement to charter the tankers to a Standard...
Colonel Growdon, a lean, carrot-topped tanker with the cold blue eyes and competent air of a professional fighting man, rode at the van. His Pattons snorted through desolate villages, past a British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering...
Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
...came over him gradually. When he was packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy from his home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
...umbilical cord connecting these two airplanes is a refueling device recently developed by Boeing Airplane Co. Most refueling of airplanes from flying "tankers" has been done by a flexible hose which the airplane must catch and attach. Because the old system has many disadvantages, Boeing switched to this rigid, tubular "boom" that swings below the tail of the tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom...