Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
...passengers' lot has also been improved. When Cullman first inspected the field, he concluded that "they treat them worse than at Haifa." Waiting rooms were cleaned up, customs procedures speeded. But the passengers were still not happy enough for Cullman. At Idlewild they will have a hotel and, he hopes, a sports arena and an auditorium. By 1960 Cullman expects all three ports to be shopping and amusement centers, employing a combined total of 37,000 and earning enough from their concessionaires to pay for their own development...
Beach Near Haifa...
Under cover of darkness, the Haganah captain escaped the British and raced for the Palestine shore. The Arlossoroff beached in the little town of Bat Galim, near Haifa, and prepared to resist British boarding parties...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...