Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably never heard of the game, crowded stories of the victory into tight sport pages. The London Times, in its famed fourth leader, was moved to recall editorially that Dickens had once written about the game (" 'Very good,' exclaimed Sam Weller as, with his pint of port and his newspaper in hand, he watched the end of a game of racquets in the Fleet Street prison...
...onetime deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, the first 13 experts of the newly formed Inter-American Construction Corp. were already consulting with Peron's five-year planners. Their purpose: 1) to sell Argentina U.S. technical know-how for the plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines, trucks, tools and necessary materials. Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers L. F. Harza and Theodore Knappen, who once worked for Standard Oil, and New Deal Economists Lauchlin Currie and Robert Nathan. The first fruits...
...primarily from conveniently nearby, pleasantly wealthy United States of America. The prospects were beautiful. Since the appearance in TIME [Nov. 4] of "Paradise 1946," a story describing the Utopian life Haiti affords its foreign visitors, there had come an unprecedented flood of letters to the Chamber of Commerce in Port-au-Prince and to the U.S. Embassy, from people wishing to come to Haiti...
...blackness before dawn, the Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...
...happened. The Chimara, a onetime German hospital ship, shuddered and stopped as an explosion ripped away her port bow. Her engine-room belched clouds of steam and flames. Passengers lurched through dark corridors to the decks. Soon they were a tight-packed mass of cursing, fear-crazed people, fighting to get into the ship's eight lifeboats...