Word: port
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...annum, its gross national product 10%. As recently as 1950, Turkey had to import wheat; today she is the No. 4 wheat exporter in the world. In the same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass grows where the Turk's horse treads...
...will give Spain $226,000,000, already appropriated by Congress, in military and economic aid. In return, the Spaniards give U.S. armed forces the right to use and develop certain Spanish bases. Their probable locations: air bases near Madrid, Barcelona and Seville; naval facilities at the Atlantic port of Cadiz, the Mediterranean port of Cartagena...
Everything about Ruiz Cortines' past career indicated that he was a follower rather than a leader. Because of the early death of his father, a customs official in the old port city of Veracruz, he never got more than elementary schooling, and went to work at 16 as a bookkeeper's apprentice. When revolution swept Mexico, he joined the army and served eight years as a paymaster and paperwork man for generals. After the revolution, he served 13 years as a government clerk, rising finally to the job of chief of the government's vital statistics department...
Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
...Dennis Port, Mass., Burglar Edward J. Clancy climbed into the chimney of the Stop & Shop store, inched his way down 30 ft. before he got wedged in too tightly to move, two hours later was extricated and arrested...