Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Control of seven key ports in North China. With Anglo-U.S. blessing bestowed in Yalta's secret agreements, the Russians are already entrenched at Port Arthur and Dairen. In addition they want Chinwang-tao, Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Haichow. They would thus be stationed from the Great Wall south along the Shantung Peninsula, threatening the U.S. position in Korea and Japan. ¶ More food from Manchuria to Russia, though much of China faces famine. ¶ A labor force of 500,000 Chinese to work on projects in the Soviet Union. ¶ More rights for non-Chinese minorities (Turkis...
...French-born parish priest, scurried for a cup of black coffee. By the time he had returned with it, 'Alina, her paralysis gone, was able to sit up and drink. She was rushed off to the hospital at nearby Gonaïves, then moved 'to another at Port-au-Prince. There, some 600 curious Haitians visited the ward to gape at la revenante (the returned one). Many nodded knowingly and whispered tales of the walking dead. Said Alina: "When I died, I found myself in a place where a lot of people were talking and taking their pleasure...
...sent out some tugs and pulled. Nothing happened. They dug a trench around her, dredged a channel through 830 yards of shoals back to the channel. They pumped off all her oil, blasted tunnels under her with high-pressure hoses, got more tugs. Several hundred bluejackets raced from the port side to the starboard side and back, sallying ship in an effort to free her ample bottom from the sucking mud. Nothing happened...
...Health Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...Heustis, "greatly enthused over the significance of these findings," believed that Port Huron's outbreak was licked. He warned doctors elsewhere to be on the lookout for O-111, and suggested the use of sulfathiazole for early treatment...