Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, while in Europe in charge of the Normandy port of Cherbourg, Colonel Wyman received what the War Secretary described as "... a well-deserved Legion of Merit." Said Patterson sadly: except for the Army board's investigation and report, "Colonel Wyman would have received at least one promotion," to Brigadier General...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
...this the peace? Of the world's 2,000,000,000 people, at least 1,900,000,000 just did not care what became of Massaua's flea-bitten port, or of sun-baked Leros, or of Venezia Giulia's ragged purple mountains, or of dusty Kalgan, or of the fog-soaked Kurils. What the people did care about was tomorrow's bread or hunger, day-after-tomorrow's peace...
...Port Arthur, Tex., pickets strode before a Texas Co. refinery carrying signs: "52 for 40 or Fight. This is a Walkout." The slogan meant that C.I.O. oil workers wanted 52 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. The drive was on for labor's first postwar objective: wartime wages at peacetime hours...
Strikes like Port Arthur's hit oil plants in seven states through the South and Midwest. By week's end 27,000 workers were out. Toledo went on self-imposed gasoline rationing, other communities considered similar steps; millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil for the Atlantic seaboard were choked off. At one time last week, 323,000 workers were idle, in strikes and shutdowns...