Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GROSSE HAMBURGER HAFENKONZERT (Polydor). Three LPs of harbor concerts from the port of Hamburg complete with gulls, ships' horns, and a seaworthy selection of North German songs...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...
...Europe's third-busiest port (after Rotterdam and London), factories and tank farms are sprouting amid ancient cathedrals and guild halls. Foreign companies have invested $750 million in new plants since 1964, plan some $500 million more over the next three years in a city whose population (654,500) is smaller than New Orleans. This month General Motors laid the cornerstone for a $100 million factory-G.M.'s second in Antwerp-that will be the company's main European assembly point, employ more than 6,000 Belgians and turn out 300,000 Opels a year. Last...
...Belgium is more centrally located than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready for 100,000-ton supertankers by 1970.*Belgium also gives foreign businessmen low-cost financing, tax holidays up to five years, and a minimum of government interference. As a result, the Washington-based Atlantic Council of blue-ribbon U.S. business and political leaders rates the country's investment...
...Vietnamese workers have put down their tools, often with reasonable gripes about wages and working conditions. Lately, though, the Viet Cong have been moving in. In Saigon last month, suspected V.C. agitators puffed a minor dispute into a walkout of 1,600 workers, virtually halted work on vital port facilities for nine days...