Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traveling 6,500 miles to safety in England, they moved nearly a hundred years forward in time. At home, they had lived on a fish-and-potato diet, carded and spun wool by the light of oil lamps, ridden in bullock carts. In their new cottages near the British port of Southampton, they encountered for the first time the 20th century wonders of electric light, store clothes, supermarkets, frozen foods and traffic jams...
...launched myriad ships, Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos knew precisely what he wanted for the 55-mile watery commute from his island villa to his port city office in Piraeus. From British shipyards came the world's fastest 102-ft. yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked...
Inequitably Correct. Since the 1958 race riots in Notting Hill and later in the port city of Middlesbrough, violence has grown rare, but it has been replaced by a more finicky discrimination. In Smethwick tenants in a housing project staged a rent strike when a Pakistani family was given an apartment; workers in an Oxfordshire factory voted 591-205 against the management's proposal to fill vacant jobs with colored immigrants. British unions are on record as opposing any color bar, but when job shortages occur, the unwritten union rule is "blacks out first." British social workers argue that...
...Benelux countries, which exported 85% of their 14 million-ton production last year, will soon be pouring another 1,700,000 tons a year in a still unfinished plant located near the port of Antwerp...
...first time since Fidel Castro took power 3½ years ago, discontent became mass civic defiance. In the port city of Cárdenas (pop. 53,000), lying 73 miles east of Havana, crowds surged through the streets shouting, "We are hungry! Down with Communism!" Castro's reaction was to send Russian T-34 tanks rumbling threateningly through Cárdenas' rebellious streets...