Word: tankermen
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...other hand, tankers as big as 100,000 tons may prove a strategic necessity. Many tankermen have been expecting for months that Egypt's General Nasser would not only seize the Suez Canal (see FOREIGN NEWS), but bar it to Western shipping, to bring pressure on Britain and the U.S. Some supertankers are now bypassing the Canal on the Middle East-California run. If all Europe-and U.S.-bound tankers are forced to round the Cape of Good Hope, more and bigger supertankers will be needed...
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