Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Paragraph. MacArthur's decision to crack down stemmed from the coverage of the Hungnam evacuation. Three weeks ago, while U.S. marines and G.I.s were still clawing their way back to the escape port, a Reuters dispatch from Tokyo briefly mentioned the preparations for an evacuation, a fact all Tokyo correspondents knew but had not filed, for security reasons. The evacuation news, which had been buried in the seventh paragraph of the Reuters story, was rewritten into the lead in London and splashed across the front page by the Chicago Tribune and other papers. When the New York offices...
...Action. Hopped-up accounts of the Hungnam fighting kept going out. The U.P. sent out a breathless story of the "crucial final stage" that had the U.S. 3rd Division fighting "with its back to the sea to hold open the escape port of Hungnam against Communist 'banzai' attacks." Actually, MacArthur's headquarters insisted, U.S. forces were engaged in an orderly withdrawal at small cost...
Ruin & Rubble. The Hungnam dock area itself was already a torn and twisted slag heap of rubble and debris left earlier by U.S. strategic bombing attacks. The concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia...
...with a Bang. Back down the road to the port of Hungnam, thousands of bewildered refugees watched as the retreating U.N. army destroyed trains, tents, unsalvageable vehicles and more bridges. A young engineer lieutenant pointed pridefully to the underside of a 600-ft. highway bridge; he had packed in a series of charges totaling three tons of explosives and thought that this one should really go up with a bang; 30 minutes later it did, and the bang shook most of Hungnam. That night Hungnam rocked to still more violent and ever-increasing explosions around the U.S. perimeter. Great orange...
...last week stepped up its economic war on China. It forbade any American ship to call at any Red China port, and froze Red China funds in the U.S. or in U.S.-controlled territory. Earlier, the Department of Commerce had clamped down on trading with all Iron Curtain countries. It freshened up a blacklist of some 200 companies and individuals who have been sneaking goods into the Soviet orbit. The department said that it was also keeping a close watch on all exports to Switzerland, Spain and other way stations in the shipment of strategic goods from...