Word: tankerous
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...forward tank of the Norwegian tanker Tamano ruptured on Saturday and 40,000 gallons of industrial fuel spilled into the Bay. The mishap occured when the tanker, attempting to reach an anchorage, struck Soldier's Ledge, which rises to within 40 feet of the surface...
Last summer I worked as a crewmember aboard several Texas Oil Company tankers, sometimes calling Port Arthur, Texas where both Gulf and Texaco have large refineries. My main interest at the time was filming a movie on oil pollution; Gulf, Texaco and the other big oil companies have confronted pollution with great aplomb in their advertising, but they have taken little action to change actual shipboard procedures such as cleaning cargo tanks at sea. There were no black officers aboard any of the ships I was on, though there were many unlicensed black seamen. Gulf, Texaco, Esso, and other major...
...from the Asian mainland, 6623 made a rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker, which topped up her tanks for the run over Viet Nam and back. A short time later, Captain Larry Underwood, 27, the electronics warfare officer, detected the first traces of enemy radar bouncing off 6623. Seated at a console behind the flight deck, Underwood began employing a number of top-secret jamming devices to conceal 6623 within its own protective bubble of electronic countermeasures. As the B-52 came within range of surface-to-air missiles, Underwood employed other devices that blocked the missile radar from locking...
...accused of using improper influence to gain a Treasury Department waiver permitting an oil tanker to engage in coastal shipping trade, thereby increasing the ship's value by $5,000,000. The tanker, it was discovered, was owned by officials of Dillon Read. Flanigan too had held a share in the vessel and had disposed of it only five days before the waiver was granted. Flanigan's reply: "I did not even know Treasury was considering a waiver...
...Thursday, he led Miami on a "Murder Tour" of gun factories and shops while displaying a revolver that an aide had purchased with a borrowed credit card. Then, yesterday, he had himself photographed in front of an oil tanker while denouncing oil depreciation allowances. Lindsay spent Friday on a swing through Tampa and Jacksonville and returned to Miami today...