Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then treated with a chemical concocted by RJB Founder Richard J. Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...
What could not be denied was that Stonehouse had become entangled in a complex web of financial ventures. The son of a port office maintenance engineer, Stonehouse did a stint as an R.A.F. pilot during World War II, then studied political science at the University of London. Handsome and energetic, he was briefly a rising star in the Labor Party, winning his first seat in the House of Commons in 1957. In 1964, during Wilson's first term as Prime Minister, he served as Aviation Minister and later as Postmaster General. He was not offered a post...
...dramatic as the clearing of the canal has been the restoration of the main cities that line it. Since the 1967 war, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez had been part of the Arab-Israeli battleground, and most residents had fled for safety to such cities as Cairo and Alexandria. After the Israeli pullback from Suez last March, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave priority to a $7.2 billion renovation plan for the Canal Zone -in part to create a visible symbol of Egypt's desire for peace...
Since then, some 275,000 people have returned to the canal's northern terminus at Port Said and 280,000 to Ismailia. Suez, which was 80% destroyed during the October war, will not be ready for full repatriation of its 264,000 residents for another year. Even so, the population has swelled from 8,000 to more than 100,000 since June...
...Kedr Street, not far from the port, a woman hangs out laundry on the edge of a gaping hole in the wall that was once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...