Word: tankful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frank Gallo's Swimmer, a life-size female body made of polyester resin, dressed in a tank suit and given 4-ft. ail-American gams...
Shouting Down. De Angelis' men duped Amexco with surprising ease. Often, one of them would clamber to the top of a tank, drop in a weighted tape measure, then shout down to an Amexco inspector on the ground that the tank was 90% full. Sometimes the tanks were indeed full-with water, topped by a thin slick of oil. Usually many were empty. Moreover, the tanks were connected by a jungle of pipes; Tino's men sometimes sneaked into the casually guarded tank farm on weekends, pumped oil from one tank to another. These machinations gave...
What made the matter more complex was that Tino by then had grown so cocky and creative that he bypassed even the lax warehouse inspectors, forged some of his own receipts. By mid-1963, he had contracted to buy 20,000 tank cars of oil-an astonishing 1.2 billion Ibs., worth about $120 million. With every 10 shift in price, he stood to gain or lose $12 million...
...warehouses: Harbor Tank Storage Co., which issued some warehouse receipts for De Angelis, has sued him and one of his cronies. Joseph Lomuscio, for $46.5 million. Harbor Tank, in turn, faces claims from bankers and other creditors for the same amount...
...Esso tiger has already stalked into everyday conversation, nightclub jokes, songs, editorials and politics. A British M.P. recently became so fired up by the delaying tactics of the House of Lords that he declared in the House of Commons that the Lords had "put a tiger in my tank." In a straight-faced editorial, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung feared that the tiger campaign could unleash "the beast of prey in drivers." Riding on the tiger tale, Esso stations in Europe are pumping record volumes; in France, April sales of Esso Extra rose 32% over last year. Italian motorists now drive...