Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipped Sixth and Fifty-second Armies broke the Manchurian stalemate. With surprising but by now familiar ease they captured Antung, Red China's only major Manchurian port, then pushed south (toward the Soviet-controlled port of Dairen) to clear lesser harbors. In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula. Once again U.S. equipment and training was in evidence-the Chefoo attackers splashed ashore from old Navy landing boats...
Their only worry was that so good a life could not last. On porches overlooking the improbable blue harbor of Port-au-Prince, the 200 or more members of the American colony in Haiti basked in a New World Majorca, living like nabobs on $300 a month, and comfortably...
...Mexico's Nazis escaped deportation by paying off politicos? Three months ago, the Mexican Government fanfared the announcement that 486 Germans were being corralled near the port of Veracruz, ready for the long voyage home. Last week, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared that the Mexicans had deported only 76. After some hemming & hawing, Mexico's Department of the Interior had an explanation: the figure 486 had been a mistake; besides, those who stayed on did not "menace or threaten [the] national security...
Irresistible Vocation. Father Matthews' parents were school superintendents on Britain's tropical, oil-rich island of Trinidad. As a boy, young Basil often climbed the hill, eleven miles from Port of Spain, to visit the monastery of Mount St. Benedict, first West Indian outpost of the Benedictine order. Irresistibly drawn to "the splendor of the liturgical life" he found there, at 14 he was discussing his vocation with the prior...
...Soares has his answers: Volta Redonda's location, halfway between the port of Rio and industrial Sao Paulo, is ideal for distribution. The Paraiba River furnishes an ideal water supply. Limestone (a necessity in steelmaking) is mined near by. In time, Soares expects subsidiary industries to grow up around Volta Redonda, turn it into a Brazilian Pittsburgh...