Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This was precisely what Joe Curran hoped...
Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...
When London announced last fortnight that illegal immigration of Jewish refugees into Palestine must end, the 1st Infantry Division threw barbed wire round the port area, patrolled its perimeter with tanks and armored cars. Early one morning Tommies and Royal Marines began transferring 1,286 refugees from two small sailing craft (popularly called "floating sewers") where they had sweltered in filth for two weeks. Like Moses, these Jews might glimpse the Promised Land, but they could not enter...
...Elizabete's men, the wallowing wreck looked like a pot of gold. If they got her to port, approximately a third of the salvage award would be distributed among them according to rank (their owners taking the other two-thirds). The galley boy thought his share would be enough to buy an automobile and marry his Canadian sweetheart...
...board the Farmer, and how much the little Elizabete's efforts were worth. According to the existing salvage treaty (signed in 1910), "no remuneration is due if the services rendered have no beneficial result." The Elizabete's skipper thought he could have brought his tow into port. The Ranger's skipper thought...