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...European refineries, but have proved their economy as well: they can haul oil halfway around the world for 3? a gallon, less than the prewar cost. Reason: a 50,000-tonner carries few more crewmen than a 16,600 wartime T-2 tanker, gets more speed, thanks to better hull design, for every unit of horsepower...
Onassis is still expanding fast, has 23 more tankers on order (for $130 million) all over the world, including a 45,000-tonner at Hamburg. By next year, he will control 1,250,000 tons...
Coolly the ship's captain, a ruggedBrooklyner named Henry P. Saukant, ordered the watertight doors secured, and jettisoned oil and fresh water to lighten ship. Then he turned over his engines again in a futile hope of pulling clear. Within half an hour, the 3,800-tonner began to buckle amidships; minutes later, when all 39 crewmen had made their way to the stern, the Grommet Reefer tore in half as if broken over a giant's knee. From her holds spewed turkeys, fish, meat, beer and other supplies bound for the Christmas meals of U.S. troops...
...technical mission raced the Russians to grab the presses. The U.S. got two, which exerted a forging pressure of 16,500 tons, three times as much as any operating U.S. press (although, at the time, the Mesta Machine Co. was making an 18,000-tonner). But the Russians snatched the world's largest, a 33,000-tonner. The U.S. later turned the two German presses over to Bohn Aluminum and Alcoa to experiment with aluminum forgings. But while the Russians put their big press to work and started building a 55,000-tonner the Germans had designed...
...Force program to spend $389 million on 20 big forging and extrusion presses. * Henry J. Kaiser, who has been plugging for the presses for 2½ years, got a contract to build a $17 million plant at Newark, Ohio to house two of them-a 25,000-tonner and a 35,000-tonner to be built by E. W. Bliss at a total cost of $14 million. Only two weeks ago, Alcoa got a letter of intent to operate a 35,000-tonner and a 50,000-tonner to be built by United Engineering & Foundry and Mesta Machine. Wyman-Gordon...