Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made by the men who run them. What is the answer to the human hazard? Many experts think it rests with the proliferation of the supertankers-including the behemoths known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs) that will be hauling increasing percentages of U.S. oil imports as deep-water port facilities are built. While these ungainly and oddly delicate ships-seaborne "steel balloons," Supership Author Noël Mostert calls them-are by no means immune to trouble, they are primarily run by big operators, including oil companies, that set high standards for captains and crews. Says Klaus Meurs, senior...
...Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become a diplomatic liability, an embarrassment, and would be an active demonstration, according to the Nazis, of what a "problem" the Jews were. This squalid footnote to the Holocaust raises some curious questions-prominent among them is why President Franklin Roosevelt...
...factory construction. Another $2 billion goes to social services and welfare programs. The government claims to have built 346,000 new housing units since 1970, virtually eliminating slums. Medical care is free, and Libyans can increasingly afford the foreign consumer goods piled up in Tripoli's mile-long port. Like other oil-rich Arab lands, Libya has a chronic labor shortage. Nearly 300,000 workers-about 40% of the labor force-come from abroad. They include 250,000 Egyptians, who send $400 million annually home to aid their hard-pressed economy...
...Buckley's 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Ashore, ships of state were foundering and inflation was making even rubber ducks a luxury item. Buckley's landlubbing wife Pat was waiting apprehensively ("If he comes through this alive, I'll kill him"). But with Europe finally visible to port and Africa looming to starboard, Buckley brought his crew content past changeless Gibraltar...
Milton Rauschenberg (he changed his name to Robert as a young man) was born on Oct. 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, a shabby, humid oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His father, Ernest Rauschenberg, was the son of an immigrant doctor from Berlin who had drifted to southern Texas and married a Cherokee. Port Arthur was no cultural center. Its symphony orchestra was the jukebox, the comics its museum. The nearest thing to art one could see was the cheap chromo-litho holy cards pinned up in the Rauschenberg living room (the whole family was devoutly active...