Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average 40 years of age, they are moving front and center to key posts of their companies, communities, professions. Two months ago Ohio Judge Potter Stewart, 43, a lieutenant aboard a Navy tanker in the North African invasion, became the World War II vets' third U.S. Supreme Court Justice, after Brennan and Harlan. (On the bench they sit with five veterans of World War I: eight of the nine Justices have seen wartime military service...
...Kure, Japan, the onetime Japanese Imperial Naval Yard, now operated by U.S. Tanker Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., launched the world's largest tanker, the 104,500-ton (loaded) Universe Apollo. The first of five planned supertankers, the Universe surpasses the largest previous bulk carriers, Ludwig's 85,000-ton tankers. With a length of 950 ft. and a beam of 135 ft., Universe Apollo is the widest merchant ship afloat, and the third longest (ranking after the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary...
...most thoroughly flight-tested and debugged air transport ever to go into service, had 50,000 flying hours as a military tanker and commercial prototype before the first plane was delivered to American. The pilots are delighted with it-although their wage demands for the jet age may ground some of the airlines before the fight is over. The pilots insist that the third man in the jet cockpit be a pilot instead of an engineer (TIME, May 5), want more money ($45,000 a year for a Pan American flight captain v. $25,000 now) on grounds that...
...President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems, can offer an immediate and sizable outlet for Middle East oil. The feudal princes of Saudi Arabia, who have overdrawn on their big profits to support their luxurious living, are interested in getting the most possible revenue now. But Tariki, an admirer of Nasser...
...rare moment of relaxing, the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...