Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French archeologists also profited by war's destruction. Last week the French were busily clearing away the rubble of the German-demolished "Old Port" of Marseilles, turning up traces of ancient Greek Masillia (6th Century...
...Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream sundaes with whipped cream...
...House calling for Government development and control of atomic energy. The bill would 1) set up a five-man civilian board to conduct atomic research on an annual budget of $3,500,000 and 2) supervise operations of Canada's three uranium plants at Eldorado Mine, N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left up to Canada's atom bomb partners...
Perhaps even louder were the reactions from the would-be strikers. At week's end, Bridges and Curran-who follow the Communist line more often than not-fired a telegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris, asking that longshoremen in all world ports refuse to unload U.S. Government-operated ships-except troop and relief ships cleared by the C.M.U. In New York, N.M.U. Port Agent Joe Stack sounded the battle cry: "President Truman will break the strike over our dead bodies...
...good measure, Unilever controls the Lipton Tea Co., has exclusive rights to use Bird's Eye frozen-food processes outside the U.S., runs a General Motors agency in the Union of South Africa. At the model town of Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Unilever runs the world's largest private printing press, the world's largest private dock, has built acres of Tudor-style, neatly landscaped cottages for workers. They get a guaranteed wage from Lever, have their children educated by Lever, their doctor bills paid by Lever -and are buried by Lever...