Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With fortitude I witnessed the shortening of streamers on flat hats and even the elimination of the grommet which made it a flat hat; the reefing in of bell bottom trousers, issuance of pajamas to sleep in, substitution of "right rudder" for "port your helm," substitution of "hostess houses" for the places we used to frequent ashore...
Phase Two began after less than three months during which a nearly miraculous logistical effort poured a flood of war materiel and men into Pusan's choking port. When the allied forces were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...
...Prepared quietly to evacuate all British nationals from Iran in case they were attacked. The British East Indies fleet was reported standing by; nearly 100 air transports were ready in the Suez Canal zone: they could carry British troops from Cyprus and Port Said to Abadan in five hours. But, said a Foreign Office spokesman: "There will be no order to fly those troops over unless and until disorder breaks...
This week twelve fully laden tankers lay in the hot, bustling Persian Gulf port of Abadan, unable to move because Teheran insisted that the tanker captains sign receipts saying they owed the "Iranian National Oil Co." for their cargoes. Ten more days of this and Abadan's storage facilities would overflow, the world's largest refinery would have to shut down...
...first shipment to the U.S. from mines in Liberia. To get out the ore, Republic Steel Corp., which bought an estimated 62% interest in Liberian Mining Ltd. two years ago (TIME, March 28, 1949), has had to build Liberia's first railroad, from the mines to the port of Monrovia 43 miles away. The high-grade Liberian ore (whose iron content is almost 70%, compared to 51% for Lake Superior ore) is rich enough to be used directly in Republic's open-hearth furnaces. Republic expects to use 600,000 tons a year of Liberia's output...