Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
...only dramatized the investigations being conducted simultaneously by the commission and a Brooklyn grand jury; all week long, the two groups pitchforked up vast, reeking chunks of long-buried evidence on the rackets which bleed a third of a billion dollars a year from the world's greatest port. Amid this sensational expose of crooked politicos, corrupt cops, grafting labor leaders and swaggering gangsters in New Jersey and. New York, Anastasia emerged as a star performer despite himself. The ghost of Peter Panto, an insurgent longshoreman whose body was found in a New Jersey lime pit eleven years...
...brains behind the exploit was Nylon Sid, who was lurking in Marseille waiting to dispose of the loot when the Esme's crew was captured. Spanish cops nabbed Nylon Sid when he skipped to Madrid; last week he faced trial before a U.S. consular court in the internationalized port of Tangier...
Suddenly, thousands of Italians lining the shore let up a roar and pointed seaward. Out of the horizon sped the Leyte and the Midway. Well off the port, they dispatched four helicopters, and within minutes they were hovering over the Grommet Reefer; one by one, the survivors were plucked off to the resounding applause of the onlookers and set ashore. By nightfall, the 37-hour ordeal was over, and the happy crew was giving a banquet for Captain Saukant, last man off the broken Reefer, and in many a Leghorn household that night, Italians feasted happily on American turkeys, which...
...Port of New York is a majestic natural harbor endowed with deep rivers, estuaries and bays and rimmed by 770 miles of profitable piers and docks. Thirteen years ago New York handled 22% of all the tonnage shipped to & from the U.S. Today tonnage has slumped to 15%. Principal reason: the New York waterfront is the realm of hoods and racketeers, where a payoff is as casual as a Christmas card, where whole truckloads of merchandise can vanish, where watchmen never make an arrest, and where mobsters recruit musclemen who are still serving time in Sing Sing...