Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheikdoms. The trouble is that Aden's link with the Federation was a shotgun marriage that neither the Adenis nor the sheikdoms want any part of once they win independence. Aden fears that the sheikdoms will drain off the relative prosperity it enjoys as a major world port. The sheiks claim that they do not have enough say in the Federation government, and that Aden has too much. The government, a collection of moderates installed by the British, is unpopular with the Adenis themselves, whose sentiments are divided between two Nasserite organizations, the National Liberation Front (N.L.F...
...still have the scrubbed and simple air of a fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
Economically, Nigeria needs the East far more than the East needs it. Ojukwu complains that his region contributes 35% of the nation's tax revenues and gets back only 14% in federal outlays. With coal reserves, a palm-oil industry and abundant oil along the coast near Port Harcourt, the East has the potential to go it alone as a viable state. Its population of 12 million (including 9,000,000 Ibos) is larger than that of either Kenya or Ghana...
Whatever the meat's merits, the industry owes its growth to Crab King Wakefield, 57, son of an Alaska salmonand-herring pioneer. Wakefield prepped at his father's processing plant at Port Wakefield on remote Afognak Island, struck out on his own after World War II to exploit the vast and virtually untouched king-crab grounds on Alaska's continental shelf. Though Japanese fleets had been catching and canning the huge crabs for years, Wakefield determined to try freezing the meat, on the theory that "when you are so far from the market that your costs...
...Costa predicts that volume will at least triple by 1970. As much sense as Rivalta Scrivia makes, many of Genoa's stodgier merchants have characteristically fought its development every step of the way. But Costa is determined to see it through. "For too long we have regarded the port as a place to make money," says he. "The time has come to begin thinking about what service we can offer." And of course making more money in the process...