Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marseille, where mobile guards kept Communist demonstrators at more than arm's length, the Communists' great enemy, Charles de Gaulle, spoke from a barge anchored in the Old Port to a throng of 100,000 on the docks. He offered not one hand but two to all who would join his movement. He said that "our arms are wide open to others"-which seemed to indicate that he still had lively hopes of a deal with Premier Robert Schuman...
Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
Getting to Market. Development of Itabira has been handicapped by bad management, waste, nepotism and political featherbedding. Moreover, once the ore is dug, it is not easy to get to market. The railroad's locomotives are woodburning, its cars antiquated. Vitoria's port facilities are so poor that it takes 30 hours to load an ore ship; modern machinery could do it in 30 minutes...
...week, after a year of heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...
...Buffalo, it was the earliest port opening on record, 52 days ahead of last year. Shippers hoped that this meant an early opening for the rest of the Great Lakes, usually icebound till mid-April. It would come none too soon for steelmen. Their stockpiles of ore were so low that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through...