Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect Timing. In Port Huron, Mich., less than an hour after Building Inspector Roy Monroe inspected and condemned a city-owned warehouse, it collapsed...
That night, as Elizabeth slept, a band of Irish Republicans planted a gelignite bomb on the Dublin-Belfast railroad tracks, 40 miles south of Belfast. The explosion blew a five-foot hole in a small trestle bridge, but since the royal route lay northwards to the port of Londonderry, no direct harm was done. Some sufferers: 600 southern Irish who had served in the British forces in World War II and who were journeying to Belfast to salute the Queen. Their excursion train was delayed...
...this area comparatively secure. Red gunboats constantly patrol the Pearl River estuary, and the oldtime speculator who ran the blockades with mixed cargoes has disappeared. The Communists ask for and get only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through...
...Crane's collection began last February, when he received one of the cards announcing that his father, who lives in Gulf port, Miss., had given him a subscription to TIME. The doctor wrote, asking if he could have some more cards. Later he sent a letter of explanation and a picture of his reasons (see above...
...Deep-Sea Port. At the power site, Ventures plans to build mills and smelters to process ore from the company's worldwide network of mines. Electric furnaces will manufacture pig iron and steel, fed with iron ore from Ventures' mines on Vancouver Island, chrome from a Ventures property in the Transvaal, cobalt from New Caledonia and manganese from Southwest Africa. Another plant will manufacture aluminum. Lead and nickel from Ventures' Canadian mines will be processed on the site. A new, deep-sea port near by will enable ships to deliver ore and carry away finished metals...