Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
...With the tanker's arrival the U.S. made good on its pledge to Israel, at the time Israel pulled its troops out of the Egyptian gun positions dominating the gulf narrows, to send in a ship flying the U.S. flag to help establish the right of "innocent passage" through gulf waters...
...East oil will more than double in the next decade to 300 million tons a year. Even if the Suez Canal is restored to dependable use, they reported, the canal can handle only a small percentage of the increased flow, must be heavily supplemented with new pipelines to Mediterranean tanker ports. Under study is a $500 million pipeline with 60 million tons annual capacity, to run from Iraq to Iskenderuri, Turkey. Another idea is for an internationalized Middle East pipeline system administered by all transit countries, with oil companies simply paying for services rendered. By letting the Arab nations...
Developed by Engineer Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs. now United Aircraft's vice chairman, the J57 has been in production since 1953, powers Boeing's eight-engine B-52 heavy bomber and four-engine KC-135 jet tanker-transport, Convair's supersonic F102 interceptor and five other military planes. Soon the even bigger J75 will go into two more important planes, Convair's supersonic F106 interceptor and Republic's F-105 fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop...
...tanker were missing and feared dead...