Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peru's President Manuel Odría, infuriated, shook up his armed forces. Planes and patrol vessels captured four catchers after machine-gunning two of them, and other aircraft forced the fleet's 13,000-ton factory-ship into a Peruvian port after dropping two bombs close aboard. The staggering fine followed...
BELGIAN BONDS will go on sale in the U.S. market soon for the first time in 20 years. Belgium, which needs $50 million to improve the Port of Antwerp and inland waterways, will float a $30 million issue through New York's Morgan Stanley & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co., has got the rest in a loan from the World Bank...
...show, at Gallery "G," was somewhat grandiloquently billed as "Twenty Masterpieces of Haitian Painting." It included few, if any, masterpieces. Yet Haiti's primitives have come a long, long way in the eleven years since the founding of Port-au-Prince's Centre d'Art, which supplies untrained local artists with painting material and a tourist market (TIME, June 7). The two most impressive painters in the exhibition have in fact achieved a high degree of skill and sophistication while keeping their roots deep in Haiti's voodoo-impregnated soil...
Three months ago, with the help of a local British fisherman, a Polish fishing vessel, apparently in trouble, was guided into the port of Whitby. In incomprehensible Polish and ragged German, seven members of the Polish crew managed to explain that they had locked their captain in the lavatory, the political officer in his cabin, and had headed for Britain to seek asylum from Red rule...
Whatever his mistakes, Director George More O'Ferrall can take credit, with Cameraman Jack Hildyard, for a powerful use of the camera to catch a mood. Hard and clear as the Syrian villain's eye, the frame takes in a stupefied huddle of tropical port: the tiny, eyeless box-buildings, the hot grey roads, the depraved palms, the dirty water that slides about the harbor. Beneath every scene is the sense of the black human jungle waiting to swallow all importance, and down upon everything blasts the terrible sun, like a pagan god who has come too near...