Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...identify) on the radar screen about 17 miles off Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing, Calamai and his third officer walked to the starboard wing of the bridge...
Fearing collision, he ordered a sharp turn to port, personally pushed the button for the prescribed two-short-blast signal for port turn, and sent Andrea Doria churning through the dark sea at more than 20 knots in a desperate effort to cross in front of Stockholm. When Stockholm began her turn, Calamai testified, she sounded no warning signal. Had he been warned by signal of her starboard turn, he could still have swung to starboard. "Would that have avoided a collision?" asked a lawyer for the Italian Line. "Certainly," said Piero Calamai...
...live and care for one another in close community under a religious code in which even physical uncleanliness is punishable by excommunication. In 1947 some 600 men, women and children of the Sabbath Church went to South Africa to weave baskets and make furniture in Korsten, a suburb of Port Elizabeth. Their industry and thrift led to a prosperous industry...
Equal Pay. The outburst came over the twin pipelines that the British-managed (and British-French-Dutch-U.S.-owned) I.P.C. operates between its Iraq fields and Lebanon's Mediterranean port of Tripoli. The Lebanese in 1944 gave renewed approval to an old agreement to 1) let I.P.C. run its pipes through their country, 2) exempt the company from taxation, 3) submit all disputes to arbitration. In 1947, I.P.C. began paying transit fees to Syria and Lebanon, through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same...
When war was declared Duffy enlisted in the Army, went to OCS, and served 27 months as an officer in a port battalion in New Guinea. On the way to his overseas assignment, Lieut. Daugherty stopped off in San Francisco, where he met pretty Frances Steccati. Frances politely inquired how long the lieutenant would be in town. "About a month," said Duffy. Then he added casually: "We'll be married by then." They were...