Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes based on carriers and in Thailand in the daily, relentless pounding of North Viet Nam. Indeed, as Hanoi increasingly steps up the tempo of fighting in the South, there is likely to be increased argument for U.S. bombing of the industrial complex around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong...
...week's end Castro still seemed as eager to get rid of his disaffected citizens as they were to get out. Three charter boats were evacuating 2,000 refugees stranded at the port of Camarioca since the small-boat exodus was cut off three weeks ago, and the word was that the airlift would begin...
...food shipments started again, hired pro-Western Mahmoud Younis, director of the Suez Canal, to reorganize Egypt's creaking transport and communications. Last week Cairo even announced that it hoped to infuse some new capitalist life into the long-moribund Cairo Stock Exchange, and declared Port Said a duty-free zone...
...centers at last an advantage rather than a threat. Sleek high-rise apartments tower over half-timbered villages. Factory smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries to $1.6 billion in ten years. Last week the Alsatian Regional Development Organization announced...
...transmission works at He Napoleon, Hispano-Suiza a factory for aircraft components at Molsheim. Franco-Canadian Polymer is making synthetic rubber near the Strasbourg refineries; three other chemical companies have bought sites near by. All this activity has made Strasbourg, 250 miles from salt water, France's biggest port for exports. "Alsace," says Albert Auberger, president of the Strasbourg Port Authority, "is the center of a vast market of 170 million consumers-the keystone of the great arch connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean...