Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the new setup, TAG will be commanded by
able, pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 58, one
of the Air Corps' oldtime hell-for-leather pilots,
...burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
...recognize the blockade, Isbrandtsen demanded, in full-page ads in New York newspapers, that the State Department uphold freedom of the seas and give him protection by U.S. warships. Earlier, Isbrandtsen ships had been seized in the East Indies by the Dutch (over export license technicalities) and in the Mediterranean by the Egyptians (on suspicion of carrying war goods to Israel). The Dutch have since made a settlement for damages; the U.S. State Department is negotiating for Isbrandfceen with the Egyptians...
Classical Perspective. From the Mediterranean, paradise of diggers, came news of gaudier digs. At the site of ancient Stabiae, near Naples, Professor Libero D'Orsi was impatiently watching a field of ripening tomatoes, the property of Peasant Vincenzo Tammaro. Under the tomatoes, he was sure, lay riches of classical art. But the peasant had the professor neatly trussed in red tape. He could not sink a spade until the tomatoes were safely in the sauce factory...
...Constitution, which was launched in Quincy, Mass, last week. Unlike the United States, the 1,000-passenger Constitution was designed primarily as a commercial vessel, although she has many defense features. With her sister ship, the Independence, the $25 million Constitution will enter service between New York and the Mediterranean early next year...