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...foggy night last June the Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. rammed, exploded and sent to the bottom of Massachusetts Bay the gasoline tanker Pinthis (TIME, June 23). Fire and water killed 50, including all hands on the Pinthis. Wild tales by semi-hysterical passengers landed in Boston prompted the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service to file four charges against Captain Archibald H. Brooks, master of the Fairfax: 1) excessive speed in a fog; 2) violation of pilot rules; 3) unskillfulness; 4) negligence. His trial by a Federal board of inspectors began in Boston where local feeling was strongly against...
...Kansas City and St. Louis. Importance of this line lay not so much in its length as in its function as a carrier of gasoline, not of crude oil. Petroleum companies have hitherto piped crude oil to refineries, but have shipped gasoline almost exclusively by rail and tanker. Other oil companies planning gasoline pipe lines include Barnsdall Corp., which will run a gasoline line from its Muskogee, Okla., refinery to Milwaukee, and Sun Oil Co. which will pipe gasoline westward from its Philadelphia refinery through Pittsburgh and to some point on the Great Lakes, probably Toledo. Piped gasoline has thus...
...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...have seen a good many explanations," said the Vice-Chamberlain jovially, "as to why we took my vacation on a tanker instead of a liner. They were all of them wrong. The truth is very simple. I knew in an oil tanker we would find peace and quiet and good sailing conditions...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...