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65th Street Yard from the harbor. These car float bridges, built in 1999, had never been in service until 2012. Car float in operation in 2016. The 65th Street Yard, also Bay Ridge Rail Yard, is a rail yard on the Upper New York Bay in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
Ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operation is the transfer of cargo between seagoing ships positioned alongside each other, either while stationary or underway. Cargoes typically transferred via STS methods include crude oil , liquefied gas ( LPG or LNG ), bulk cargo, and petroleum products.
Inside the bottle, Flament-Smith found all sorts of contents: a few shells, a bullet casing, a "mini cannonball," and sand; but, the biggest surprise was the note inside, she told WTSP.
Since her sinking, oil still leaks from the hull, with more than 2.3 U.S. quarts (2.2 liters) escaping into the harbor per day. [66] In 2004, the US Navy and the National Park Service oversaw a comprehensive computerized mapping of the hull, being careful to honor its role as a war grave . [ 67 ]
Meanwhile, of the 31,430 women enrolled in the WTCHP, 24.16%, or 3,540, have been diagnosed with breast cancer — also a rate substantially higher than the national average for women, which is ...
For some time now, research has shown the importance of certain vitamins and how they contribute to our brain function. And with the number of people with dementia rapidly increasing in the U.S ...
The bunkering of ships with oil instead of coal, mass-production of automobiles and increasing aviation, all increased demand for oil and thus oil transport. In 1928 the World's largest oil tanker was the 16,436 gross register tons (GRT) C.O. Stillman , completed that year for Canadian owners by Bremer Vulkan in Germany.