Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firms which intend to do business in the "regions" of Egypt or Syria may submit their plans to Bonn for approval. They must finance their own shipments; only if the U.A.R. should fail to pay would the guarantee operate. For Cairo's ambitious list of factories, bridges and port projects, the West German government would promise only to provide technical advice and training...
...same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), tanned, with close-cropped hair, Juan Carlos is Dictator Franco's candidate...
What gave the stock its bounce was a new project at Port Charlotte, a strip of Florida's west coast, 130 miles south of St. Petersburg. There, General Development is selling lots that start at $895 and houses that start at $6,960, for mortgage payments as low as $46 a month...
...advertising. As a result, 300 to 400 letters came into its offices every day last week from as far off as Hong Kong, each with a $10 down payment for a lot. In the past year, the company has sold 34,000 homesites and close to 800 houses at Port Charlotte...
...Mackle houses are hard to beat for the price. At Port Charlotte, the company sells ten different models of pastel-colored, concrete-block ranch-type houses from $6,960 (one bedroom, living room, kitchen and screened porch) to $16,260 (three bedrooms, living-dining area, two baths, garage, terrazzo floors, tile roof). The Mackles try to avoid the project look that afflicts many mass building areas by laying out streets in winding arcs, alternating models, setting houses at different angles, and surrounding them with fast-growing trees and shrubbery...