Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Definition. Soustelle wants to do more than wipe out France's dollar deficit. He hopes to make France a major oil supplier to the entire 168 million people in Western Europe's new Common Market nations, feeding oil by tanker into the southern end of a projected 36-inch pipeline from Marseille to Karlsruhe. Sahara's natural gas might be transported to Europe either by tankers specially built to carry it in liquid form or by a trans-Mediterranean pipeline through Spain. And Algeria itself will benefit from a feeder line to carry gas from...
...circus held him for only half a year; then his Wanderjahre began for fair. Naples, Tunis, Casablanca, Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg-he hit them all, playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker from Odessa to Mexico to the Far East. Once, he remembers, his ship got to the U.S. where he won an amateur-night contest singing Spanish songs he had learned in Mexico. "I sang Mexican songs in the U.S. and hillbilly songs in Mexico," he explains. "No use pushing your luck...
...charm and temper. He can be blunt or suave-but in either case he is likely to know what he is talking about. A pilot since he was 20, he has flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics Administration, plus the safety-rule-making powers once held by the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...charging high prices for the gas (competing fuel oil must pay 24% taxes against his 14.8%), Mattei has some flashy results to show: he has accumulated huge sums for oil exploration, owns pipelines, a tanker fleet, a spanking new synthetic rubber and fertilizer plant, and a string of thousands of bright yellow filling stations across Italy. He operates eight motels and is building nine more. He is also at work on an $80 million nuclear-power plant...
Looking for More. Lear also would like to crack the market for instruments used on the big airliners. His autopilot, other instruments and fuel pumps are used on the Air Force's KC-135 tanker-transport (the military version of the Boeing 707); Lear instruments are also used on the French Sud Aviation Caravelle jet airliners, but so far major U.S. commercial lines have hesitated to buy. Their reasons are that Lear's record for quality control, service and stocking spare parts has fallen short of the ingenuity of his inventions. Said one major airline executive last week...