Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the nose of two other Esso tankers, which had spent the day hunting survivors, the Virginia, owned by National Bulk Carriers, Inc., moved in after dark. Her men boarded the Greensboro while flames still flickered and began the slow tow to port. Last week the Virginia reached Galveston with its prize, and captain & crew got ready to put in their claim on the $2,000,000 tanker and about 100,000 barrels of oil cargo in six compartments which the fire failed to reach...
Spring Offensive. Near Port Arthur, Ont., when three cops showed up at Louis Damill's farm with a search warrant, Damill's nettled nanny goat 1) grabbed the warrant and chewed half of it, 2) butted one of the officers, 3) broke loose from the barn after they locked her in, 4) routed the three from the premises...
Success Story. By last week, when Bar reca formally opened a new $500,000 plant at Port Credit, Ont., Canadian Admiral had sold more than 16,000 TV sets and was the nation's biggest television manu- facturer. For 1950, its sales totaled $5,000,000 (up 92% from 1949), net prof its $308,000 (up 123%). The Port Credit plant, a shiny brick-and-glass structure on the mud flats, is turning out sets at a rate of 25,000 a year, and Barreca is ready to hike that to 50,000 on short notice. The first Canadian...
...hundred thousand to the island of Crete. The Greek Reds, instead of going after Apericles, attack Turkey. The U.S. and the U.N. go to Turkey's aid. The war gets difficult and General Legion, the American commander of the U.N. forces in Turkey, proposes to blockade Piraeus, the port of Athens, and to help General Apericles establish a beachhead on the mainland and hit the flank of the Greek Reds...
...port of Bandar Mashur, troops shot down one woman in a mob of strikers. At Abadan nine strikers were killed. With clubs, rocks and fists, the mob battered to death three British employees of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., mauled six others. Strikers there all but shut down the world's largest oil refinery...