Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furtive Voyage. Listed on the manifest as "steel rods, optical glass and laboratory supplies," the arms, in 15,000 cases, were loaded on the freighter Alfhem in the Baltic port of Stettin, now a part of Poland. Once through the Skagerrak and out of the foggy Baltic, the vessel acted like a ship carrying hot cargo. First she laid a course south for Dakar, French West Africa, but radioed orders changed the destination to Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies. Nearing Curaçao, the Alfhem was again diverted, this time to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Finally the ship...
...perhaps 80% of Hanoi's 140,000 people were for the Communists, and the French had to fight to secure themselves when the war began there. Last week Vietnamese authorities estimated that the city's population was up to 340,000 and that Communist sup port was down to about 30%. From Communist-held areas, thousands of ref- ugees who could not stomach Red taxation, conscription and forced labor crowded the city...
...Port Rate-a picture...
...mention in his program of foreign private investment. The only indication that Mexico could not pull herself up entirely by her own bootstraps was his announcement that he intends"to negotiate long-term foreign credits for railroad rehabilitation, expansion of fertilizer production and the realization of our program of port development...
...petty dispute set off the strike late last month at the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.'s port of Puerto Cortes. Because there are no recognized unions (they are banned by law), no one expected the strike to spread. But laborers quit first at United Fruit Co., then at Standard Fruit & Steamship Co., finally in most of the area's shops, factories and mines. With breathtaking efficiency they organized local strike committees...