Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TANKER CUTBACKS are hitting U.S. shipyards because oil-import curbs have slashed ship charter prices. At Newport News, Bethlehem and Sun yards, $130 million in ships ordered by independent Greek contractors (Onassis, Livanos, Goulandris) has been canceled...
...sale, added that it would be safer to test a nuclear plane over sea than over land areas, where a crash might expose civilians to explosion and radiation. The Air Force said it could adapt its operational B-52 intercontinental jet bomber or its KC-135 jet tanker, but added that it was much more interested in getting a supersonic nuclear jet that would provide a new operational weapons system than it was in winning a round in psychological warfare. In the end the meeting agreed only that 1) the atomic-plane project needed more study, and that...
...Jack Up the Protection." What peeved the Canadians as much as the request itself was the reason given for it. As before, Washington justified the cut on "security" grounds, i.e., the argument that in time of war, when tanker imports might be cut off by submarines, the U.S. will be thrown back on its own oil production, thus must keep the independent producers healthy. But Canadians sensibly pointed out that their oil is shipped in pipelines and would not be cut off. Warned former Canadian External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson: "Any further restrictions on Canadian imports into...
...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...throne for himself, the legendary Greek hero Jason sought and found the fabled Golden Fleece, outward symbol of all that was most rich and rare. Today's Jason is another golden Greek, the modern-day Argonaut Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 48 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), whose tanker fleets gird the globe, bring in a train of wealth and credit that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris...