Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that private companies must keep, and the task of filling out Government forms now takes them 95 million man-hours yearly, an 8% increase since 1964. Among the documents required by the Government are the 117 forms that it takes for each ship to enter and clear a U.S. port, some written in language that goes back unchanged to 1799. One of these commits every vessel to include in the crew's mess each Sunday "¾ ounce of coffee (green berry), ½ pint of molasses, four ounces of onions and one ounce of lard...
...wily South African entrepreneur named Rudolf Raphaely, who was attempting to run 400,000 tons of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rhodesia's main oil terminal-the Portuguese Mozambique port of Beira, which is connected with landlocked Rhodesia by a 187-mile pipeline. For weeks British warships had discouraged tankers from putting into Beira. Undaunted, one of Raphaely's ships, flying a Greek flag, quietly loaded 18,000 tons of crude in the Iranian port of Bandar Mashur and steamed around the northern coast of Africa to Dakar, where it changed its name to Ioanna...
...topping out" of its tallest building yet, the 42-story, $30 million Union Bank Square. In Manhattan, wreckers have just begun smashing a ramshackle clutch of century-old eyesores to make room for the world's highest skyscrapers, the twin 110-story 1,350-ft. structures of the Port of New York Authority's World Trade Center.* Boston's State Street Bank & Trust Co. is busy shifting 1,000 employees into its new 30-story office, and later this month some 4,000 federal workers will start moving into Boston's new 24-story John...
...Viet Cong, of course, were quick to exploit the unrest in I Corps. Last week Red agents infiltrated some of the demonstrations in Hue and took solace from the two-day general strike that cut down traffic and slowed unloading at Danang's busy port. That sent Premier Ky to the nationwide radio at week's end with a warning that the government would "move strongly" to quell agitation. But Ky moderated the threat with a promise that South Viet Nam would be given a new constitution by November at the latest, and other officials hinted that national...
...Participation by the Japanese in development of the western Siberian oilfields, which are expected to become Russia's biggest producers. The Russians will need 4,338 miles of 48-in. pipe to run from the fields to the port of Nakhodka, plus 500 miles of 28-in. pipe for branch lines, as well as other equipment. They would pay the Japanese for the pipe and equipment in oil, beginning in about 1975, when production would presumably rise above local needs...