Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front...
Bargain. In Plymouth, England, a woman who had flown 3,000 miles from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to have her baby in Britain explained that, with Britain's free medical service, it was cheaper to buy a plane ticket than to pay doctor bills at home...
...Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work, the line spent $1,000,000 on salvage operations, shipyard repairs', hotel bills for displaced passengers. Last week, the last two plates were welded on the Excalibur's hull; next week she sails for the Mediterranean...
Such swift work was nothing new for American Export. On-the-dot schedules for its "Aces" and 24 all-cargo vessels clear five ships from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American...
...representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane had to raise his rates to avoid ruin. Gehan wangled so much tobacco trade that...