Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zulaco oil fields, a great plume of fire rises from Well No. 16. The drill tower rears and twists. Thirteen men are dead. The fire rages on. Company inspectors decide that the fire can be snuffed only with explosives. Back at the port of Las Piedras, 300 miles away, sit two tons of nitro-glycerin-but can they be hauled across the shambles of a road that leads to the oil fields...
...third time in 2½ months that a plane had plummeted on Elizabeth, and the Port of New York Authority, fearing riots, shut the $52 million Newark airport up tight within three hours...
Livorno (or, as the stiff-tongued British rechristened it, Leghorn) was once a busy port and a first-class naval base. Then, in World War II, Allied bombers smashed its port facilities and the retreating Germans blew up its sea wall. A year ago, the U.S. Army decided to make Livorno a big supply base, and sent a white-thatched colonel named Norman Vissering to do it. He found the port operating at 25% of capacity, the townspeople dispirited and 14,000 unemployed in a city...
...Girl in Every Port (RKO Radio] has Groucho Marx, but not much else, in its favor. Teamed with William Bendix, Groucho is a Navy veteran with a talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote...
...Bring his gale-battered ship to port...