Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish response was swift, and spurred on by almost daily violent demonstrations against the U.S. embassy, for the Turks interpret U.S. policy as favoring the Greeks (the Greeks interpret it as favoring Turkey). The Makarios regime was informed that the passenger steamship Amiassa would anchor off the Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort...
...Vision. The French island of Guadeloupe took the first serious impact of Cleo's winds. There, the capital of Basse Terre suffered hundreds of demolished homes, and the hurricane devastated sugar and banana plantations, and left 14 dead. Bypassing Puerto Rico, Cleo next moved into Haiti, where the port city of Les Cayes was practically leveled, and 124 Haitian lives were lost...
Osakans are naturally so commercially minded that their favorite salutation is "Mokari makka?" (Are you making money?). Though Osaka recovered from the war's devastation more slowly than Tokyo, it has picked up enormous speed in recent years. With adjoining Kobe, its port ships 41% of Japan's exports, is a center of shipbuilding. Its factories have diversified from traditional cotton spinning into electronics, chemicals and precision machinery. Its stock market is studied as Japan's most accurate economic barometer...
Unhappily, this seaquel is even sillier than the original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves...
...steel subway cars made by Philadelphia's Budd Co., the first of 600 cars- at $114,700 each - that will be the largest subway order in history. The St. Louis Car division of General Steel Industries is busy building 162 air-conditioned aluminum cars for the New York Port Authority's Hudson Tube line to New Jersey, this month completed the last of 430 picture-windowed World's Fair cars for the New York subway. Pullman-Standard is building 180 air-conditioned, 65-m.p.h. cars for the Chicago Transit Authority...