Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unto the lender holds true in every instance"). With a generous tax policy and no currency restrictions-the U.S. dollar is the medium of exchange-Liberia has attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting 3,000 acres of rubber trees, and Liberia's own rubber crop now equals that of Firestone...
...just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets that spell i LOVE YOU in colorful International Code flags, mast-shaped scatter pins emblazoned with code flags reading K-U-Z-I-G-Y (International Code for PERMISSION GRANTED TO LAY ALONGSIDE...
...Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow New York Yacht Club member: "I should have told the fellow to go straight down...
Says Father Laboon, who is soon to be joined by a Protestant chaplain: "The 60-day patrol of the atomic sub Seawolf," he explains, "indicated a need for religious coverage. We have crews away from port for extended periods, weeks on end of living with an atomic reactor, and soon, ballistic missiles as well. These patrols are almost the equivalent of war, in the minds of all who are involved in them, and morale must be kept high...
Meantime, another $275 million would be spent to develop Ghana's bauxite reserves and to bolster rail lines running to the Tema area, where a smelter would turn out 220,000 tons of aluminum a year. The metal would be shipped from a port abuilding at Tema...