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Vital Statistics. The plan envisions the most immense operation in oil logistics in human history. The Suez Sea Lift calculates that Western Europe's oil deficit would be made up in two major ways...
...routing tankers 11,254 nautical miles around the Cape of Good Hope from Persian Gulf ports to Western Europe. The trip would require more than 30 days, as against the 12-or 13-day journey through the Suez and Mediterranean...
Western Europe's present daily oil imports total about 2,500,000 bbls. Of that, about 2,000,000 bbls., or 80%, come from the Middle East. Tankers carry about 1,200,000 bbls. a day through the Suez; the other 800,000 bbls. are sluiced through pipelines to Mediterranean ports and pumped aboard tankers there. Assuming that Nasser does not succeed in getting his Arab neighbors to cut off the pipelines (which would virtually amount to an act of war), Western Europe can concentrate its worries on finding a way to make up for the loss...
...Suez Sea Lift calls for moving some 800,000 bbls. of Middle East oil daily around the Cape of Good Hope-a schedule that U.S. planners consider well within reason. The other 400,000 bbls. would come from increased Western Hemisphere production, most of it from the U.S. Current U.S. production stands at about 7,000,000 bbls. a day-with an available productive capacity of 2,000,000 more. The Venezuelan government last week announced that it stands ready to shove up its oil production by 500,000 bbls. daily (U.S. experts believe, however, that 200,000 would...
...Stevenson is most at home with. (Said Adlai: "An exceedingly responsive audience, one of the best.") Here Stevenson let loose with penetrating wit and fine oratorical style, twitted the Republicans for contradictory statements (on neutralism, the meaning of Russia's reduction of its army, the importance of the Suez crisis), came out foursquare for compliance with the Supreme Court decision on segregation...