Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of conspiring to gyp the U.S. in some postwar deals to buy surplus ships (TIME, Feb. 15), waited for delivery of one of the fanciest yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will...
...Live at Peace. Once when the freighter tied up at a wharf at one port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled...
...concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...
...terminals all along the East Coast and last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...