Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish island of Fernando Po or the Portuguese island of Sao Tome and then, under cover of night, airlifted into the bush. The planes, which are used on other nights to fly in arms and ammunition, land on a lantern-lit stretch of highway somewhere between Owerri and Port Harcourt, frequently under fire from federal ack-ack guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
...days later, the state's Bay Conservation and Development Commission released another plan that was a clean-cut challenge to the Westbay proposal. The only bay filling that might henceforth be justified, it said, would be for projects "providing substantial public benefits" that could not be gained otherwise-port terminals, airport extensions and "close-to-home" recreation facilities like marinas, beaches, parks and fishing piers...
...transmitting oil to the Mediterranean Sea. Then, when Israel came up with the same idea following the Six-Day War-and with the canal closed indefinitely-the race was on. Last week, getting the jump on the Egyptians, Israel started construction of a $113 million pipeline project linking the port of Elath on the Gulf of Aqaba to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean. Bulldozers at both ends of the planned, 160-mile line began clearing sand dunes to make way for oil-storage tanks. The 42-in pipeline, which is being built by Israeli, U.S. and French technicians, should be able...
...full year after Israel's line is due to go into operation. Under plans drawn up by a British engineering firm, the $150 million line would carry 50 million tons per year from the Gulf of Suez to one of three terminals-Alexandria, Damietta and Port Said. Despite the greater distance involved, the Egyptians will most likely decide on the 190-mile Alexandria route on the theory that it would be more secure from possible Israeli attack...