Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Inch. The Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. acquired the complete right-of-way for its projected 1,030-mile pipeline from the Abqaiq field in Saudi Arabia through Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean port of Sidon (TIME, March 24). When completed by 1949, the 30-to-31-inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels...
...Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program...
...Port-de-Bouc's solitary church bell struck six, the shrill blast of a ship's siren split the air. This was the deadline the British had set. If the 4,424 Palestine-barred Jews aboard three British prison ships in Port-de-Bouc's harbor failed to disembark, the British would order the ships to Germany...
...Come to Our Auschwitz!" Since the Jews had been placed on the prison ships, 36 babies had been born. Around 50 more would be born in the ten to 14 days it would take the ships to reach Hamburg, according to Port-de-Bouc's Dr. Jean Cayla. The environment they would be born into was described vividly by the New York Herald Tribune's Ruth Gruber. Visiting the Runnymede Park just before sailing time, she reported: "We picked our way gingerly over people lying on the floor on dirty blankets. . . . While we walked the people kept shouting...
...three ships steamed off toward Germany, a frail little man in a shabby black suit stood on Port-de-Bouc's tiny quay, looking longingly after the ships. A Polish Jew who had emigrated to Strasbourg, Josef Hochowitz had two children aboard the ships, Israel (24) and Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...