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Oil Leases / Northwest Passage #7034

ABC Evening News for Thursday, Sep 11, 1969
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(Studio) $900 million bid for drilling rights or leases in Alaska oil fields. SS Tanker Manhattan on test voyage in N.W. Passage.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

(Arctic Circle) Trip normally takes 17 days 1 way. Dick Shoemaker aboard tanker plowing through solid ice. Scientists test ice for thickness, temperature, and strength to see how tanker built.,
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker

Reporter(s):
Reynolds, Frank;
Shoemaker, Dick
Duration:
00:02:00

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