Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diego (pop. 655,000) has every natural asset a city could ask. Set between rolling mountains and the sea, it boasts a magnificent natural harbor, a paradise for yachtsmen and a major port for the U.S. Navy. No smog sullies its air, no wastes pollute its waters. The climate is kindly (67°-70°) all year. It is a place that people dream of coming back to, and they do; the phone book is a virtual Who Was Who of retired Navy and Marine Corps brass. To keep San Diego unspoiled, the city fathers long ago adopted rigid zoning...
...West Germany's Amphicar, a sporty little amphibian that goes 85 m.p.h. on land, 15 m.p.h. on water, comes with a waterproof horn, port and starboard lights and twin screws. Price...
...Greek port of Piraeus, three U.S. shipping experts this week will begin looking over a private fleet that has five times as much tonnage as the French navy. One by one, 63 black-bottomed tankers and freighters will be diverted from their runs over all the oceans and seas and pulled into dry-dock for the visitors to inspect. The inspectors have quite an assignment: to help bring off the largest ship purchase in history, a deal of $200 million or more. Up for sale was almost the entire armada of that hero of the modern Greek shipping legend, Stavros...
...then, it has been gobbling up enterprises and creating new ones in seven south-central African nations, and it is hungrily casting about for more. Last week Lonrho began operating a 187-mile, $11.2 million pipeline that it built through the jungle to funnel crude oil from the Mozambique port of Beira to a new Rhodesian refinery that will supply the growing markets in Rhodesia and Zambia...
...satisfy thirsty Americans, huge quantities of Beefeater gin are shipped across the Atlantic from Britain each year-in railroad cars. The British load their spirits onto a new kind of U.S. freight car called the Flexi-Van, which is hauled to port by truck, loaded onto a ship, fitted with train wheels in the U.S. and sped to its destination over the rails. Thanks to such innovations, U.S. railroads are not only hauling merchandise directly from such countries as Japan, Egypt and Italy, but also carrying a broad range of domestic goods-from candy to sewing machines-that they lost...