Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That treaty insured British paramountcy in Iraq. It gave Britain: 1) the right to maintain two important bases; 2) management of the Iraqi State Railways and the oil port of Basra; 3) the monopoly of providing all foreign technical experts needed by the Iraqi Government...
After a week's layover in the Canal Zone, the force will move east to the islands. Port of Spain, Trinidad, and San Juan will be visited by the group for three days each, before a week of gunnery practice at the Guantanamo, Cuba, Naval Base. Hamilton, Bermuda, and New York City are the last stops...
Sailors' scuffles are a familiar story in many a port, and in Latin America they have often helped feed anti-U.S. feeling. The Pérez story was another case of a friendly visit marred by hoodlums in uniform. Said a Monte sidewalk philosopher: "It's a pity these sailors should have picked on Uruguay, the only country in South America that really likes...
...created where Greek guerrillas could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port of Salonika to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria...
...spend on the venture. (Jersey Standard and Socony will guarantee $102,000,000 of the loans, all three companies will share the rest.) Aramco will build a 1,000-mile pipeline from the blistering oil-rich city of Dammam to the Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels a day to 500,000, replenishing the depleted treasury of Ibn Saud by 23? for every barrel...