Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campbell worked on a paper in the wool port town of East London until 1944. A book he wrote on South African war problems (Smuts and Swastika) brought him to the attention of South Africa's leading newspaper, the Johannesburg Star, which hired him as an editorial writer. In April 1950 he began working as a part-time correspondent for TIME, and in April 1951 he became a staff correspondent...
...Dutch tulips. The occasion was the opening of the new Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, a 45-mile short cut across The Netherlands that will bring Amsterdam's river traffic 25 miles and 20 hours closer to Germany. In the age-old competition for the rich river traffic, the sister port of Rotterdam, sitting near the North Sea, has always had the advantage. Now, with the opening of the largest inland navigation lock in Europe, and the completion of the canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river...
When the aircraft carrier Wasp began her precarious trip back to port after her mid-Atlantic collision with the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson (TIME, May 5), it seemed doubtful that she could be repaired in less than three months. Her whole lower bow had been chewed out, and a section of her hull 75 ft. long and 30 ft. high was missing. It was a blow to the Navy: ship, crew and air group had been painstakingly readied to replace another carrier in the Mediterranean...
Seven hundred navy-yard workers, working shifts around the clock, began what was to be one of the most amazing major repairs of a capital ship in U.S. naval history. The job cost approximately $1,000,000. This week, only ten days after limping into port, the Wasp was refloated and ready again...
...Crimson's centerfield position may have another gardener today if Ricker decides to pitch a left-hander. After using Charlie Walsh, Dick Clasby, and Bob Smith there last Saturday, McInnis may insert sophomore Dick Scheer against a port-sider. Otherwise, the line-up will remain the same as usual, with the exception of shortstop. There, junior Walt Greeley may get the nod in place of Ed Krinsky...