Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION : domestic transportation, storage and port facilities...
...Rations. At Anchorage, where thousands of service wives & children are based, the evacuation drill was even more realistic. Buses took women with small babies to Elmendorf Field where Army clerks speedily checked them through to planes. A special train stood by to take other priority passengers to the Army port at Whittier, 60 miles to the southeast. Meanwhile, the bulk of Anchorage's dependents jumped into automobiles and drove a full 50 miles down the road which connects with the Alaska Highway...
Pohang, a minor but useful port, had been lost to the enemy last month arid then retaken by the South Koreans in what they prematurely called their "greatest victory of the war." Last week, cracking before a tremendous Red onslaught, they lost Pohang again. Pohang's airport, which a U.S. task force was defending, was still in Allied hands at week...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base of Port Arthur...
Mary Luckenbach, had listed so quickly and sharply to port that it had been impossible to get her boats away. She had sunk in less than half an hour...