Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian note was stiff. One of their tankers was missing, and the U.S. Navy must have it. The Russian story was that the 8,840-ton Soviet tanker Tuapse was stopped one morning last week in the predawn hours 125 miles south of Formosa by a "destroyer type" vessel. The captain just had time to get off a message reporting this when radio contact...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who added the world's biggest tanker to his 100-ship fleet only two weeks ago (TIME, June 14), is not the man to let barnacles grow. Last week, out from a Kiel shipyard for a trial run with Onassis on board sailed his new yacht, probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic...
WORLD'S BIGGEST TANKER, the 47,000-ton Al-Malik Saud Al-Awal, has been launched in Hamburg, Germany for Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who recently made a deal with Arabia's King Saud to transport about 10% of the country's oil in his tankers (TIME, Feb. 22). Though world shippers have protested that the deal will eventually give Onassis a monopoly in carrying Arabian oil, Onassis plans to go ahead, will use his $6,000,000 giant to ship oil to European markets...
Boeing Airplane Co.'s engineers lined the runway at their Renton, Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon...
...month ahead of schedule, Boeing Airplane Co.'s big four-jet tanker, the 707, was rolled out last week at Renton, Wash. The 707, which can be converted into a commercial liner, will have a cruising speed of 550 m.p.h., about 100 miles faster than the grounded British Comet. The first U.S. entry in the international commercial jet transport race is powered by four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines similar to those on Boeing's B-52 heavy bombers...