Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crash of a DC-6, luxurious, pressurized, 300-mile-an-hour craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects...
...short tempers (TIME, Aug.11, 25), Canadian railroads were accused of sticky slowness in returning empty U.S.-owned coal cars. Last week the shoe was on the other foot. At the season when Canada's need of boxcars was greatest-to move the grain harvest from prairie to port-U.S. railroads were far behind in their return of closed cars...
Americanism, announced Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in the Nation, is "a great external reality rising up at the entrance to the port of New York . . . and the daily product of anxious liberties. The anguish of the American confronted with Americanism is an ambivalent anguish, as if he were asking, 'Am I American enough?' and at the same time, 'How can I escape from Americanism...
...cold prevailed, and the air was thick with fog of the texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
...Manchuria the situation is altogether different. Government troops hold most of South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing...