Word: port
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like the Wasp (the second carrier* and seventh U.S. naval vessel to bear the name), the 37-knot Hobson was a veteran of many a sea battle of World War II. She was racing along off the carrier's port quarter on "plane guard"-ready for rescue work in case a flyer missed his landing and crashed. Under the impact of the collision the Hobson sank almost instantly, with many of her complement of 14 officers and 223 men asleep or helpless below. Amid a glare of searchlights, the carrier's crew began rescue operations. Other destroyers raced...
...issue was raised and heard Senators Ives, Knowland, Nixon, Lehman, and Taft all speak on behalf of the states. In particular, Senator Ives read a letter from Mayor Impelliteri to President Truman in which the New York solon pointed out how other waterfront state activities such as the Port of New York would be jeopardized as to jurisdiction should the Senate fail to clear the states' title as obscured by the Supreme Court decision. Senator Taft read an article by the former Dean of the Harvard Law School, Roscoe Pound, which firmly maintained the ownership of the tideland oil lands...
...adjoining French Morocco last week, the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Fez (by which the territory passed into French control) rolled around. In Tangier, an international port which Moors view as part of Morocco, rioters ran amuck in the streets, smashed shop fronts, looted, beat up Europeans. At least a score were injured, and several killed...
...shipping man has his blood count checked regularly. About once a year the count shows that he needs another shot of atomic medicine. When he goes to a Gulf port on business, a local doctor watches his blood counts and reports back to San Francisco. If the white-cell count begins to go up ominously, there is still plenty of time for a dose of radiophosphorus to be flown to the Gulf Coast. The shipping man drives himself hard and feels fine...
...Hydroelectric plants are already irrigating a million acres. The French have crisscrossed the land with 27,000 miles of roads. In, brawling Casablanca, where dozens of new hotels, office buildings and apartments went up last year, the skyline changes almost daily. Four decades ago, Casablanca was a squalid Oriental port of 20,000 people. Today the population is 600,000. Last year ships spent a total of 4,000 days waiting for berths at Casa's crowded docks...