Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military action in defense of the rights and interests of American citizens abroad, thus forming a precedent of sorts for Senator Knowland's demands that the U.S. use military pressure to obtain the release of its prisoners in Red China. In 1854, a United States ship bombarded a Nicaraguan port after some Nicaraguans had manhandled an American consul. The Supreme Court subsequently asserted it to be the Executive's duty to act at his own discretion to protect American citizens. During the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, President McKinley sent 5,000 American soldier's and marines...
...objectively expressed. This fact, together with the completely biased version of the facts, gives to the article "Dali Makes Met" [Jan. 24] a completely erroneous interpretation...The interest in my pictorial work has continuously increased since I commenced my religious subjects. My first important religious painting, The Madonna of Port-Lligat, which was exhibited in 1947, was very highly praised. A subsequent one, The Christ of St. John of the Cross, was acquired by the Glasgow Art Gallery and has created a tremendous interest...I consider the [Met's] acquisition now of my Crucifixion as being timely. My pictorial...
...four Spanish guards on the Russian ship assumed that the gold would be taken to some southern French port, near but safe. Instead, the ship dropped anchor at Odessa, on the Black Sea. The Loyalist government in exile made several demands on Moscow for the return of the gold. So did the victorious Franco government in Madrid. Moscow spurned both claimants. Shortly after receiving the treasure, the Russians announced "a sharp increase in the Soviet Union's goldmining production," and Russia became an exporter of gold...
...G.I.s called it "Yokohama asthma and were almost right. It is not confine to Yokohama, but to port cities like it-ringed around by hills, with varied industries fouling the air. Careful tests rule out pollens as a major cause of the asthma convicted smog as the villain. A team of Army doctors reports: "By smelling the air late in the afternoon, one could predict with considerable accuracy the number of patients who would seek medical attention that evening...
...Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. and Texas-U. S. Chemical Co., which jointly bought the big (197,000 tons yearly) plant at Port Neches, Texas. Each company also bought a smaller polymer plant at Port Neches. (Cost of the three plants: $94,347,000; book value...