Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zarubin reported the meeting to Moscow, where the five redefecting sailors (of 49 crewmen aboard the Russian tanker Tuapse, captured by the Chinese Nationalists in 1954) were trotted out before U.S. newsmen to read a long, mimeographed statement. Principal point: the Russians never wanted to stay in the U.S., but were so bulldozed and threatened into accepting "the so-called free way of life" that they had to plot their escape with cunning care. Back in Washington Zarubin apparently believed the Moscow version, for he suddenly demanded to see four of the redefectors' comrades, who happened...
Love of Planning. The Russians first defected from Communism when their ship, the oil tanker Tuapse, was seized by the Chinese Nationalists in the Formosa Strait about 20 months ago. No fewer than 20 of the Tuapse's, 49-man crew took political asylum in Formosa, and nine moved on last fall to New York...
Icing to Order. To measure accurately the icing hazards to new model planes, Wright Air Development Center at Dayton has outfitted a KC-97F tanker with a special spray nozzle. Filled with water instead of fuel, the tanker climbs up until it reaches the proper temperature to produce water droplets, supercooled and ready - about F. Then it looses a spray that freezes on the test plane following 300 ft. astern...
...pouring rain one day last week, S.S. Cities Service Baltimore slid down the ways at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard near Baltimore. It is the largest tanker (32,000 deadweight tons) and cargo ship to fly the U.S. flag, with a top speed of 16½ knots and a cargo capacity of 11,473,350 gals., and is so designed that it can carry 18 kinds of oil at once.* Cities Service Baltimore is also the first ship launched under the Maritime Administration's "trade-in-and-build" plan, designed to retire tankers more than ten years...
With the long-term charters in hand, Niarchos was able to borrow money to finance bigger, faster ships. In the U.S. he built the 45,509-ton World Glory, the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954. In Japan and Sweden last year, he placed orders for 15 new ships totaling nearly 500,000 tons, ordered two more in Germany. In Britain last week shipyard workers were outfitting the 47,750-ton Spyros Niarchos, the world's biggest tanker and fourth biggest merchantman ever launched in the British Isles...