Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt's President-the Suez reopening (see box page 28). Sadat is aware of the canal's economic potential for Egypt's 37 million hard-pressed people. He is aiming to repopulate the canal's shores and has established a giant free-trade zone around Port Said to lure industry and generate jobs...
...Lose. After years of delays, work is finally surging ahead this month on the 798-mile steel boa that will stretch from the wells at Prudhoe Bay to the deep-water port of Valdez (pronounced Val-deez), where block-long tankers will be loaded for the trip to West Coast refineries. Already, 12,000 men and women are on the job building, excavating and servicing, and by midsummer the number will swell to 20,000 as the pipeline contractors drive to make their target date of mid-1977. The spongy, oil-soaked strata nearly two miles beneath the tundra...
...countries were still surging through the pipeline across the Pacific. The Defense and State Departments acted immediately to turn off the flow: they rescinded letters of credit to recipients, canceled orders to suppliers, and cabled ships at sea to "frustrate" their cargoes (that is, dump them) at the nearest port. Result: military aid was routed directly to U.S. bases but non-military goods are piling up in warehouses all over Asia, especially in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Manila...
...crew of the submarine are an unappealing lot. They are first encountered at their home port, St.-Nazaire, in Occupied France, taking a final orgiastic gulp of life before setting out on Atlantic patrol. The time...
...Port Gentil is also the home of what they told me was the "largest plywood factory in the world," the Compagnie Forestiere du Gabon. It's about the size of five football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth...