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...rites. They talked of spiking the city's water supply with LSD, hiring a frogman to emerge from a canal near the parade route and explode a bomb containing anti-Orange leaflets, even releasing a pack of white mice to stampede the horses drawing the princess' seven-ton golden wedding coach...
During World War II, 16,000-ton tankers were called "supertankers...
Japanese shipyards lead the ways: under construction are eight tankers of more than 100,000 tons; on order are 19 more for delivery by the end of next year. The British delivered their first leviathan, the 106,000-ton British Admiral, to British Petroleum last year, and Shell Oil Co. has just ordered a 170,000-tonner from Harland & Wolff in Belfast. Esso has contracted for a 152,000-ton ship from Bremen, three 170,800-tonners from Kiel, and two of 170,000 from French shipyards. Swedish shipbuilders, whose modern yards last year captured second place from the British...
...arguments for the leviathan are convincing. For instance, the 150,000-ton Tokyo Maru, the biggest ship now afloat, cost $12 million, or $80 per ton, to build, as against more than $85 for a ship half its size. Because of automation, it can be manned by a crew of 29, which is the same or smaller than the crew of tankers down to 16,500 tons...
Relatively economical with fuel, the Tokyo Maru can carry oil from the Persian Gulf to Japan for $2 a ton, compared to $3 for a 75,000-ton and $4 for a 45,000-ton ship. It is so big that its hold could, in theory, carry the entire Queen Elizabeth if that giant of passengerliners were broken up for scrap...