Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first gust blew out of Yugoslavia. Dictator Tito, heady from a long succession of diplomatic successes with the West since he broke with the U.S.S.R., opened a new campaign to best Italy in the postwar struggle for control of the beautiful old port city and the 287-square-mile Free Territory of Trieste which surrounds it. Belgrade's press and radio blossomed with demands for "a serious reconsideration" of Yugoslavia's conditions for a settlement. "Italy," snapped the official newspaper Borba, "is completely disqualified as a partner to whom it is worth making concessions." With fanfare...
...week's end Communist Tito traveled to the village of Okragljica, only 25 miles from the Trieste boundary, and before 250,000 Yugoslavs announced that he was withdrawing all his past compromise proposals and demanding a new one even less acceptable to Italy: internationalization of the Port of Trieste and outright annexation of the rest of the territory by Yugoslavia...
...emerge upon the Argentine scene in many a day is a ten-year-old Spanish boy called El Galleguito (the little Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write...
...Greece: $133 million of projects ranging from dams, irrigation works and five small hydroelectric plants to rehabilitation of the Piraeus port facilities...
...engineers' plan calls for huge irrigation and drainage projects for Burmese rivers, for hydroelectric plants, for railway and highway networks, for opening up undeveloped mineral wealth, and for building big, new port facilities. In addition, it includes the establishment of a number of new industries (basic chemicals, plastics, bamboo pulp and paper), and the modernization of others. All told, the projects call for the spending of $1.5 billion, two-thirds of which Burma's government thinks it can raise to lift the whole nation's productive capacity by 50% in a decade. The rest of the money...