Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other international shooting-match. The survivors must tell the truth, and some of those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left Germany, is now, in company with every first-rate German writer, in exile. With his wife and two sons Arnold Zweig lives at Haifa, in Palestine, works as laboriously as his one remaining good eye will permit, to tell the truth about the education he has survived...
...steamer for Haifa sailed from Brindisi and, as one car raced across France toward the port, the other was smashed by a truck in Lyon. The cars became separated, the drivers got lost, then forgot where they had agreed to meet. But the whole party caught the boat at the last moment and the two cars were hoisted aboard...
Last week the world's only ship to fly the flag of Palestine was in Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation...
...Jewish Daily Bulletin jubilantly announced that Haifa is becoming "the Pittsburgh of Palestine," chiefly because of the new Palestine Foundries & Metal Works which will employ...
...savage, two-hour street battle that followed twelve Arabs were killed, 110 wounded. Next day fresh Arab riots broke out at Haifa, Nablus and on the second day in Jerusalem where two Arabs were killed, 60 wounded as British police battled to keep them out of Jerusalem's ghetto. From Egypt two thundering squadrons of British planes took off to cow Jerusalem. There Arabs plaintively restated their eternal grievance: "Jewish immigrants have so much money that poor Arab farmers are tempted and sell out to them. Unless something is done the Jews will slowly buy up all of Palestine...