Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German dockworker peered through the drizzly fog that hung over the North Sea port of Bremerhaven last week and muttered: "Da kommen die Schweine [There come the swine]." Out of the mist lumbered two sharp-prowed, 6,500-ton icebreakers wearing huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names"North-wind" and "Westwind" on their bows. Six years after the U.S. had lend-leased these $10,000,000 vessels to its wartime ally, the Russians handed them back, somewhat-the worse for wear and well dappled with rust...
Four years ago, Salvador Dali renounced his old Freudian nightmares, and hit the sawdust trail toward what he calls "true artistic classicism." One of his first big efforts in this direction was his Port Lligat Madonna (TIME, April 17, 1950), but in shifting from the subconscious to the serene, he tripped over a clutter of surrealist paraphernalia and fell flat...
...Port Wentworth, Ga. built a new industrial water plant to attract the Southern Paperboard company. Natchez, Miss, "clarified" the state stream pollution law to get the Johns-Manville insulation board plant. In Greenville, Tenn., some schools joined in educating the populace in the art of dairy farming to help the Pet Milk Co. build up a milk supply for its new processing factory...
...four-page supplement which follows, TIME pictures four significant aspects of the South's fast-growing industrial economy: a booming industrial district, a modern port, a multimillion-dollar plant based on the natural resources of the area, and a mighty flood-control and hydroelectric project which will turn new factory wheels and light new homes. These pictures are typical of the industrial development that is going on throughout the region...
...River one day last week, a sleek ground-attack fighter zoomed through its paces. Its twin jets roaring at full power, the sturdy Gloster Meteor suddenly whipped up into a vertical climb. Slowly its speed dropped off until, just before it stalled, the pilot cut the power in his port engine. Like a great, improbable pinwheel, the plane revolved through a tight circle (see diagram). Three-quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed...