Word: tankers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Atlantic sea lanes for Shell Oil Co. After five years of experiments in Britain, Shell engineers have developed the first successful 5,500 h.p. gas-turbine engine to hook up to a ship's propeller-shaft, will install it in the redesigned hull of an 8,200-ton tanker for faster speed and more economical operation...
...basic TACair battle units might be four fighter-bombers. One will carry the atomic weapon. Another will act as cover-man and possibly carry a high-altitude precision bombsight. The others will serve as tankers for the first two, and will themselves be refueled from a C-130 tanker a safe distance away from the battle area...
SUSAC now has at least 1,200 TU4 heavy bombers stationed at newly built bases in the Soviet arctic, only a few hours' flying time from the U.S. In the last year SUSAC crews have been trained intensively in instrument flying and tanker-refueling techniques for long-range raids (equaling round trips from Siberia to Los Angeles). They have been supplied with electronic bombsights, two new types of 600-m.p.h. jet bombers (the T-37 and T-39, resembling respectively the U.S. 6-52 and 6-47), and probably with hydrogen bombs...
...monopoly can do more for Italy than foreign capital, thus does his best to ban outside investors and increase E.N.I.'s power. Starting with capital of $50 million last year, E.N.I, has rapidly expanded until now it controls most of Italy's production and refining, operates a tanker fleet, makes soap and sells 20% of all Italy's gasoline...
Ever since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil (TIME, Feb. 22), the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered...