Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They want to stop the stream of anti-Communist refugees using West Berlin as a gateway to the West...
Gwadar, which in the Baluchi language means Gateway of Winds, has been a haven for Arab seamen since the fabled Sindbad the Sailor cruised its coasts. The place passed into the hands of the Sultans of Muscat and Oman in the 18th century when Syed, heir to the Muscat sultanate, tried to seize the throne, failed, and fled across the Arabian Sea to escape his father's wrath. Gwadar at that time belonged to the Khan of Kalat, who welcomed Syed in princely fashion and made him a handsome offer. "You can have the revenues of as much land...
...keep Karachi's shops well filled with the restricted items. When the Pakistanis tried to check the flow with a fleet of patrol boats, the smugglers installed powerful diesel engines in their dhows, sped to secret rendezvous with mysterious tramp steamers far offshore, then raced for the Gateway of Winds faster than Pakistan customs launches could follow. From Gwa-.dar the smuggled stuff poured into Pakistan's markets by camel train, fishing boats and trailers pulled by souped-up Chevrolets along the sandy beaches...
...fleet of three Super-H Constellations is the number required to operate daily transatlantic flights in each direction-first step in the Irish blueprint for the expansion of its air service network to the West, and fulfillment of Ireland's role in air travel as the gateway to Europe...
...nation's newest airport hotel, a six-story, 320-room building that looks like a boomerang on stilts, will open May 8 at New York International (Idlewild) Airport, gateway for U.S. overseas air traffic. Designed by William B. Tabler in blue and white glazed brick, the hotel was built by the New York Port Authority, will be operated by Knott Hotel Corp. It will include a main dining room able to seat 160 people, a coffee shop with seats for 100, a cocktail lounge, and telephone booths with comfortable upholstered chairs instead of the standard hard, wooden seats...