Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News of the latest grain scandal first leaked out last month, when Houston's port commission fired Manager Fellrath and his assistants; CCC's Cunningham promptly resigned, and New Orleans...
Manager Winters was also fired. But when the Houston port commission's wrath fell on Fellrath, he protested that he had done no wrong. Actually, he said, he had received $140,899 for his labors - not $100,000. "Whether I did or didn't make any money makes no difference. I reported every dime I made to the Internal Revenue Bureau ... If someone wanted so many bushels of No. 2 wheat shipped out, it was my job to meet the minimum specifications and no more. I used Canadian wheat as filler [and] the Houston Merchants' Exchange checked...
...their products and allow them to cut down their standing army. Ben-Gurion assured a reporter that Israel is willing to guarantee its existing Arab frontiers "for 100 years." The government is said to be willing to make minor border concessions, and to open Haifa as a free port, but not to turn its part of Jerusalem over for internationalization or to readmit Arab refugees in large numbers...
Senator from Ohio and new U.S. Ambas sador to Ireland, arrived at the port of Cobh on his way to take over his duties...
Manufactured in Whitehall. Hussein's Jordan is economic nonsense, a state manufactured in Whitehall after World War I to serve Britain's strategic purposes. Its 37,000 sq. mi. are three-fifths desert, with no oil, no industrial raw materials, tortuous roads and one inaccessible port (Agaba). The population, tripled t01,400,000 by the annexation of part of Palestine and the influx of refugees, is divided against itself. Refugee camps are an organized horror of dirt and malnutrition. Jordan scrapes along largely on British handouts, and glories chiefly in its 15,000-man, British-officered Arab Legion...