Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salt water blocked off, the estuaries will slowly fill up with fresh water from the rivers. By means of five smaller dams farther inland, the sweet water can be sluiced northward into the Rotterdam Waterway. The waterway provides ocean-going vessels with access to The Netherlands' greatest port, but, in the process, also allows salt water to pass far inland, damaging surrounding farmlands. In effect, the five smaller dams of the Delta Plan will be used to hose the salinity out of the waterway with sweet water sluiced up from the southwest...
Trans Wrorld Radio, as the mission is called, was forced to leave Tangier in 1959, when Morocco declared that it was about to incorporate the free port. Its new site in Roman Catholic Monaco, near the summer palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, has proved to be admirably suited for the operation. The location is nearer Europe's geographical center. Ready and available were broadcasting facilities installed by Adolf Hitler. Trans World rented the installation from Radio Monte Carlo with a ten-year lease, automatically renewable...
...frontal invasion took shape, CIA men went to Guatemala and arranged with Rancher-Businessman Roberto Alejos* to use three of his properties-coffee plantations named Helvetia and La Suiza near the town of Retalhuleu, and a cotton farm called San José Buenavista, 35 miles from the Pacific port of San José-as camps to train an army of invasion ("No charge." said Alejos. "Just remember me in Havana"). Through Alejos, the CIA also arranged a $1,000,000 hurry-up surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting in September, an airlift of U.S. planes shuttled...
...almost two months, his yacht, the Caleb (Seagull), had hopped from port to port because Tito is afraid of airplanes. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah had a warm hug for the visitor before the two drove down crowd-lined highways to a physical-fitness rally at Accra Stadium. In Conakry, Guinean girls danced in the streets, cheering wildly as Tito waved from his open car; and in Bamako, capital of little neutralist Mali, school children chanted: "We are Tito's. Tito is ours...
...Port Huron, Mich...