Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
...they prefer the South, especially sea port towns...
...labor surplus. So the two have undertaken to organize a labor migration. France and Italy will go into the market as one unit to buy essential imports. Together they will try to build up markets for their export industries. A committee is working out ways to share port trade between the two great rivals, Genoa and Marseille...
...Francisco, which wants to widen its narrow lead over Los Angeles as the West's No. i seaport, last week pulled a small coup. It became the third U.S. port to establish a "free trade zone" (the others: New York and New Orleans). In the zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent...
...usual, the worst news continued to come from Manchuria. During the week the Communists stormed and captured the critical port city of Yingkow. The Reds boasted that the garrison had gone over to their side. In beleaguered Mukden itself, freezing citizens tore down walls and rafters for firewood...