Word: haifa
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...Near Haifa, a British Bren gun carrier struck a road mine, turned over. Casualties: one British officer, three enlisted men, all killed...
...Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help to exploit the Arabian pool. It has already spent an estimated $200 million on its concessions. Now it plans to spend $125 million on a 26-inch pipeline running 1,200 miles northwest from the Persian Gulf to Haifa to save the long haul by tanker through...
...Kill Me Now!" The refugee ship dodged and turned, but, after 48 hours, gave up. Then, surrounded by the three destroyers, two police boats and a tug, the captive Jewish Assembly, flying blue-and-white Zionist flags, entered Haifa harbor. As it gently nosed to the quay, there was a strange silence on its packed decks. Grenadier guardsmen, unarmed and unhelmeted, stood by with ambulances. Guardsmen, led by an officer, climbed the gangplank...
Then two more ships arrived in Haifa with 1,500 more refugees. This time Haifa Jews set up their own barbed-wire enclosure, gathered inside to hear underground leaders urge them to protest the deportation of "our flesh and blood." But again resisting refugees were transferred to British ships, again the transports sailed for Cyprus...
...vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain has no intention of jeopardizing them...