Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union men as well as Navy yeomen, battleships as well as battered Liberties. In port, these crews, as civilians, had prerogatives denied members of the Armed Forces. The stories of the strikes and slow-downs are circulated with hardly a word about the overwhelming number of incidents which proved the overall reliability of the personnel of the Merchant fleet...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
...YOUR PIECE ON HERALD'S CENTURY [TIME, SEPT. 2], IF YOU THINK WE COULD OBTAIN PETRILLO'S UNION PORT OF BOSTON BAND FOR FREE YOU ARE NUTS. WE DID NOT PAY ANY HALF PRICE FOR FIREWORKS. IF WE ARE BEST OF THE PURELY LOCAL BOSTON SHEETS, WHY DO WE GOVERN OURSELVES EVERY NIGHT BY THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES? WE HAVE FOUGHT CURLEYISM FOR 15 YEARS AND ON JAN. 23 RAN A TWO-COLUMN LEAD EDITORIAL CALLING ON HIM TO RESIGN- AND NOT IN ANY CAREFULLY MODULATED VOICE EITHER. BUT THANKS JUST THE SAME...
...kind of talk was necessary, the giant aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a heavily gunned, six-ship escort lay at anchor last week almost in the shadow of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius (see cut). They would move on, in reply to a Greek invitation, to the port of Piraeus four days after the Greek plebiscite Sept. 1 (see INTERNATIONAL...
...from the Bear. Into the port of Buenos Aires hove the S.S. Akademik Krilov with new Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev and a cargo of scarce newsprint. The Ambassador was expected to sign a new trade treaty; the newsprint backed...