Word: tankerful
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...weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service's Watertown. So did the Dixie's southbound sister Morgan ship El Occidente. From the shore the Coast Guard cutters Saukee and Carrabasset, with breeches buoy and Lyle guns, steamed...
Amid the forest of oil derricks which surrounds Baku, the captain and crew of the S. S. Soviet were tried by the maritime division of the Soviet Supreme Court last week for failing to tow into port a disabled tanker containing over $7,000 worth of the Soviet State...
...explosion aboard the tanker set it afire while being towed by the Soviet in the Caspian Sea. Promptly Captain Krivonosov of the Soviet conferred with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
Seven sailors aboard the Soviet warned that they would surely catch it from Moscow if they cut that rope. Nine sailors were for cutting it. The rope was cut. Aboard the blazing tanker 27 lives were lost but the Soviet stood by at a safe distance all night, picked up next morning two members of the tanker's crew clinging to an overturned life boat...
Last week in the port of Algiers 3,000 Arabs backed up Resident General Peyrouton by attacking the tanker Bacchus, breaking her portholes, throwing 60 barrels of wine and a loading crane into the harbor. Day before 200 miles to the west at Mostaganem, Algeria, 300 stoned the City Hall. From Paris last week Minister of the Interior Marcel Régnier, glad for a holiday junket away from France's internal problems, set out for Algeria "to investigate the situation...