Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divided Viet Nam, which once gave them 10% of their foreign trade. In Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), a mission headed by Jean Sainteny has been haggling for trade concessions. Sainteny would also like to open new trade routes into Red China through the North Viet Nam port of Haiphong (which the French, under Geneva's terms, must evacuate next week). The French admit that the negotiations have so far proved "disappointingly unproductive." but they persevere; they are trying so hard for Communist good will that they recently sold the valuable Charbonnages du Tonkin coal mines...
...powerhouse of this prosperity is the layer of productive topsoil three feet thick that covers the warm lowlands around the busy port of Guayaquil (pop. 262,000). But because picturesque Quito (pop. 212,000), some 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, is the seat of government, it happily shares the fruits of the boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once...
...telephone operators at the Quebec Conference. WACs camped in Normandy apple orchards. WACs in the Southwest Pacific made a green and gold company flag from parachute lining dyed with atabrine and green ink. The WACs who landed in New Guinea furnish a fairly typical case history. Arriving at Port Moresby, they drove to their campsite through lines of fuzzy-haired natives and whistling G.I.s. They found the camp in a state of complete unreadiness, but were saved by a "friendly men's unit" that gave them drinking water, bread and jam. They scavenged crates, nails and broken furniture from...
...junior varsity race M. I. T. and the Crimson battled for first while Dartmouth fell a length and one half behind. At the mile, a crab on the port side slowed the Tech shell. That made the difference as Crimson stroke John Hadik moved his boat ahead by a quarter length finishing...
...Fain & Dan Shapiro; book by Guy Bolton & Eddie Davis) made a few miscalculations. It used a thoroughly uninspired score. It settled for extremely commonplace lyrics. It paid little attention to the dancing. Its book floats, on a rusty keel, all over the Mediterranean and unloads benumbing wheezes at every port of call. Nor are Betty and Jane Kean among Broadway's leading leading ladies. Betty can be funny, and both at moments are fun, but theirs is distinctly a rationed, or nightclub, charm...