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...hustling businessmen are eager to cultivate a lively trade of Vietnamese raw materials and farm produce in exchange for Japanese appliances, motorbikes, small trucks and cars. In North Viet Nam, for example, the Japanese are talking about developing the big Hon Gay coal mines, building up the nearby port of Cam Pha, and shipping 2,000,000 tons of coking coal annually to Japan...
...news of the court order reached the ship's officers, they steered the vessel into Rotterdam rather than Le Havre. Kennecott then got a Dutch court to order the impounding not only of the cargo but of the ship as well. The vessel was finally permitted to leave port, but only on condition that it proceed to Le Havre and unload the copper there, where payment for it cannot be made until final disposition of the case...
...Counsel Pierce McCreary, who is directing the campaign, has the air of a war room. His desk is strewn with shipping reports, and on one wall hangs a large map for plotting ships' courses. From here, McCreary keeps a close watch on vessels entering or leaving the Chilean port of San Antonio, the only place from which El Teniente copper is shipped. At present he is monitoring the movements of at least six ships headed for Europe, loaded with El Teniente metal; when they arrive he wants his agents to be there to greet them with court orders...
...most Ozu films. "Tokyo Story" is about the increasing contrasts between old and new Japan. And like all Ozu films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them...
...haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky, a major industrial center, while travelers said that in cities as widely scattered as Saratov, Yaroslavl and Kharkov, cereals had been virtually unobtainable for weeks. Northerners from the Barents Sea port of Archangel complained that their rationed potatoes were "not much bigger than peas...