Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaesong "malicious falsehoods," Ridgway poured towering scorn on the Communists in a historic verbal nose-twisting. More significant than words were Ridgway's deeds: at week's end, through the hot skies of Korea roared a force of B293 to plaster the once-untouchable North Korean port of Rashin "(see WAR IN ASIA). Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall explained later, "in an operation...
...fortnight ago, it became known that the old submarine Ulua was being towed to a New England port for use in underwater explosion tests. The Ulua is a vital part of Captain Rickover's project. She was to be fitted with a dummy atomic engine, sent underwater without crew, and depth-charged to see how much shock an atomic engine can stand. The information will be used to modify and correct the full-scale atomic submarine that the Electric Boat Co. has been ordered to build...
...permits British troops to be stationed there, and to rule the million square miles of the Sudan jointly with Egypt, was signed by El Nahas Pasha himself, and hailed by him as a step toward Egyptian independence. It gave Britain the right to keep naval facilities at Alexandria and Port Said, and to station troops around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments...
...knew enough to see that Freeport's resources were alarmingly low. They set out to find new sulphur beds, by the mid-30s had put the company squarely on its feet again with Louisiana's Grand Ecaille, Freeport's biggest mine, built the whole town of Port Sulphur (1950 pop. 2,250) to house the workers and ship the sulphur. Watery Mine. To get the brimstone out of the ground at Garden Island, Freeport plans to build a $10 to $15 million plant. Garden Island will be a watery mine.* Its power plant will be built...
...Coyo owes this world few debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...