Word: tankerous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna V is the last...
...have pulled it up!" In Madrid, one newspaper suggested that the recovery was a Holy Week "miracle." For Palomaresinos, the splash-out meant a return to workaday chores that will always be colored by the phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open on impact) that fell on land. Air Force generals even helped gather more than 1,600 tons...
...entrepreneur named Rudolf Raphaely, who was attempting to run 400,000 tons of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rhodesia's main oil terminal-the Portuguese Mozambique port of Beira, which is connected with landlocked Rhodesia by a 187-mile pipeline. For weeks British warships had discouraged tankers from putting into Beira. Undaunted, one of Raphaely's ships, flying a Greek flag, quietly loaded 18,000 tons of crude in the Iranian port of Bandar Mashur and steamed around the northern coast of Africa to Dakar, where it changed its name to Ioanna V and hoisted...
...seizing the Greek tanker Manuela, bound for Beira with 16,000 tons of oil, Britain has reinforced her sanctions against Ian Smith's regime. The British drew on a resolution passed by the Security Council to put an "armed party" on the Manuela. Had the tanker reached Beira, the oil would have flowed through a pipeline controlled by the Anglo-Portuguese Lonrho Company to the Rhodesian refinery in Umtali...
Spies who become famous usually find it fatal. Richard Sorge, the shadowy Soviet mastermind of one of the most daring and successful espionage rings in history, was no exception. Although Russia made him a Hero of the Soviet Union, named a Moscow street and a tanker in his honor, and only last year issued a commemorative stamp (4 kopeks) bearing his likeness, Sorge was not around to take bows. The Japanese hanged him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison...