Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.G.T. (national labor federation), was up every night until 3 a.m., directing his army of 5,000,000 workers. Less than a third of this great mass is actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their courageous fight against the imperialism of the Marshall Plan...
When I asked Mayor Zaremba about Szczecin harbor, he said: "The Russians have any section of the port they want. Sometimes they move from one section to another...
...jobs. While he was closing some doors, he helped to open a new gateway. That was the historic gateway to world trade which the city, in the mid-'20s, had apathetically let fall into disrepair. Louisianians like Investment Banker Rudolf Hecht, Soft Drink Tycoon William G. Zetzmann and Port Director E. O. Jewell had dedicated themselves to the task of making New Orleans one of the nation's greatest ports...
Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...
...week's end, the Lipsetts agreed to a truce. While the New Mexico was kept clear of Newark's port, all parties met to discuss a negotiated peace. Unless some other berth can be found for the junking job, the New Mex will probably get into Newark, but with a shorter time-six to eight months-allowed to scrap her. And the Lipsetts will have to find another place to scrap the two other battleships, Wyoming and Idaho, which they have bought from the Navy...