Word: shell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cargo vessels. At least 279 ships sank, weighing 2.3 million tons in all-a 60% increase from the year before. Insurance experts at Lloyd's of London, now claim that the Salem was deliberately scuttled. If true, it would make for the biggest maritime swindle in history. Shell International Trading, which had purchased the 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil aboard the Salem, has filed the largest cargo claim ever received at Lloyd's: $56.3 million. Shell has also filed a suit against the Salem's owner, a Lebanese-American shipper named Frederick Soudan, charging that...
Throughout, Beaton writes with a gift for image and metaphor. One woman has skin "as bright and smooth as the inside of a shell"; another "exudes the friendliness and sympathy of a firelit tea in winter." Virginia Woolf compared her diary to a "disheveled, rambling plant." Beaton's is more like a topiary, carefully trimmed to his own aristocratic profile. - Gerald Clarke
...from last year throughout the Northeast, the region that uses the most fuel. Even more important has been the drop in gasoline use. Last year prices rose 35%, to a current nationwide average of approximately $1.09 per gal. for unleaded regular, and last week several oil companies, including Texaco, Shell and Chevron announced new increases of from 2? to 5? per gal. As prices have climbed, consumption has slumped to about 95% of 1978's level...