Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...include Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, New York and Bertram Hall, majoring in Government: Margaret S. Bryan of Cambridge, majoring in Biology: Ina Low Feldman of Brington, majorine in History and Literature: Majorie J. Hill of Troy. New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in Romance Philology; and Catherine Rubino of Port Chester, New York and Cambridge, majoring in English...
McCarthy: "Now that you are aware that your tanker [a United Tanker Corp. ship] moved roughly 250,000 gallons of aviation lubricating oil to a Communist port . . . about a month before the Korean war started . . . is it too farfetched to assume that aviation oil did result in the deaths of American men up in Korea...
From a little port on England's west coast, they struck out for Havana, and almost at once ran into a late spring storm. Afraid to put into an Irish port for fear of being picked up, they tried to make the open sea. Everything went wrong: the engine failed, the ship caught fire when a stove turned over, an anchor was lost, the sailing gear fouled. To save themselves and the boat, Ann and Frank worked themselves to exhaustion. For a while, Frank went out of his mind and his wife had to handle him and the ship...
...Helped form the Mediterranean Port Committee, which wrested control of French, Italian and Greek ports from the Communists...
...House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines of Northern Rhodesia...