Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teheran, five weeks later, Stalin repeated the pledge. He also let it be known that he would like a warm-water port in the Far East. Churchill remarked that Russia already had Vladivostok. Stalin replied it wasn't always ice-free. Roosevelt suggested the Russians might have access to Dairen, in Manchuria...
...irrigation dikes and dams, endangering the spring planting. Some 700,000 refugees have moved off to the rice-rich south, leaving for Ho their burned farmhouses and untilled land. An additional 10,000 refugees are fleeing the north every week. Refugees from Red Viet Nam reaching the French-held port city of Haiphong are suffering from beriberi...
Champagne Taste. In Port Arthur, Ont., Farm Hand Apolinaris Lazdinas, 32, was jailed after he announced in a local restaurant that he could not pay a $4.25 check for the 42 raw eggs, four hot dogs and three hamburgers he had downed for a midnight snack...
...plots are any more similar than one Abbott and Costello film is to another: it is the similarity of character type that constitutes a sequel. Father Brown is remarkably like that little fellow with the quizzical smile who engineered a mint robbery and who had a wife in every port...
...administration has started building a toll road across the northern end of the state from Ohio to Illinois, and has won Federal Government pledges to build an Indiana port on Lake Michigan (a longtime Indiana dream). Under the new corrections department, the administration of state institutions has improved materially. Craig has proposed (and will probably get legislative approval for) higher pay for teachers and more funds for schoolrooms. His most spectacular progress, attested to even by some of his foes, has been in the fields of highway safety and mental health...