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This week Idemitsu will preside over the launching of the world's biggest tanker, a 131,000-tonner, which he plans to use as a "floating pipeline" to import oil from the Middle East. His blushing daughter Junko will swing the champagne bottle, but since the huge ship is too bulky to slide down the ways, water will be let into its massive drydock until it is afloat. The new tanker's name is Nissho Maru, which means "Rising Sun," and at the launching there will be banzais all around...
...yourself what the world, what France is thinking? I demand that you disavow the murderers of children." The S.A.O. answered by machine-gunning seven more Algiers Moslems, and by sending a booby-trapped gasoline truck hurtling down onto the Casbah. Exploding just short of its mark, the flaming tanker blackened houses for 300 yds., but killed only one Moslem youth...
Gulped Up. At sea, waves smashed the Liberian tanker Gem into two pieces off Cape Hatteras. One officer was crushed trying to launch a lifeboat; 33 others were rescued - including one frightened stow away. A Beach Haven resident saw the sea carry off not only his house but his life savings of $30,000 hidden in it. Tele vision's temporarily retired personality, Dave Garroway. much more fortunate, sold his Long Island house for $39,000 one day before it was gulped up by the ocean...
...inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane Ltd. The solution Conch found was a double-hulled ocean tanker equipped with aluminum storage tanks insulated with balsa wood and encased in steel. Even with this kind of insulation, some methane did vaporize-just about enough, the engineers thriftily noted, to fuel the ship's boilers...
...seven trial runs, a Conch-designed methane tanker successfully hauled liquid gas from a plant at Lake Charles, La., to London, where it was pumped into special storage tanks and fed as a gas into the city mains. The British were delighted-they pay about $1.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. for homemade coal gas v. an estimated 90?for liquid methane. Last week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle...