Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribbean, four days out of the Cuban port of Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...
...masthead with a heavy list to port...
...strike clamped down West Coast ports as tight as a submerged submarine's hatches. About 160 U.S. ships of the Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians and Alaskans, who know what it is like to have Bridges paralyze their economies, battened down for another long storm. Bridges made no provision for loading cargoes for the occupation forces of the Pacific. He made one concession: "Only the dead will be worked." This meant that the bodies of World...
...reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
...product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...