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Last fortnight the U.S. apparently decided that General Weygand might form the focus of opposition to all-out Vichy-Berlin collaboration. Released from internment at Bermuda, the French tanker Shelterazade, full of U.S. oil, was en route to General Weygand's North African armies. The oil shipment should demonstrate to the natives and Vichy alike that the U.S. still has a stake in French policy...
After pointing out that its predictions might be upset if still more tankers are withdrawn for the British shuttle, the committee estimated that in the present quarter, oil deliveries to the East will be 11,200,000 bbl. short, 8.8% of East Coast demand. The shortage for the winter quarter will be 23,300,000 bbl. (15%), for the first quarter of next year, 19,400,000 bbl. Assuming that 10,000 deadweight tons of tanker can haul 375,000 bbl. of oil a quarter, the committee translated these barrel shortages into tanker shortages: 300,000 tons this summer...
...tanker from World War I days, he rode his tank across fields and through woods, stood waist-deep in a river to guide others across, sat with his men in the grass at halts, cursed roundly at delay and slow-footed action...
...brass-buttoned, forest-green tanker's uniform, which he designed, and which made the Second Division nicknamed him Flash Gordon...
...expected East Coast oil shortage, due to the diversion of oil tankers to Britain, is one transport trouble which nobody blames on a car shortage. Last week A.A.R. offered a neat statistic: of the 150,000 U.S. tank cars, over 130,000 are owned or leased by shippers (mainly oil & chemical companies), and some 19,000 of them are idle. Nineteen thousand tank cars, they figured, could handle 6,000,000 bbl. a month, though at several times tanker cost (estimated East Coast oil deficiency for 1941: 50,000,000 bbl.). Many an Eastern commuter had seen idle cars...