Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain ranges and vast areas of distant plateau. Counting everything which wasn't simply a wagon track, ECA found barely 13,000 miles of roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there was no direct road between the two places...
...hunches, but the cold facts of the world demand for oil are behind Gulf's expansion. Swensrud, who has already built the world's largest "cat" (catalytic) cracker at Gulf's main refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, will now build a still bigger one (63,000 bbls. a day) at Gulf's Philadelphia refinery. He will also build the world's biggest (125,000 bbls. per day) atmospheric and vacuum crude-oil "topping" unit (which skims off the lighter components of crude). The result will boost the military's supply of high-octane gasoline...
...World War II, and marks the halfway mark in the Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement age for a lean Yankee seafarer (who was officially retired this summer as a reserve rear admiral...
Courtesy of the Road. Near Port Wing, Wis., Motorist Vernon Anderson pulled to a stop, flagged down the car behind him, frantically told its occupants that his wife was about to have a baby, relaxed when a druggist, an obstetrician and two other doctors got out to lend a hand...
...Oxford is undoubtedly ... the more fashionable university. Rich undergraduates, a rapidly diminishing class, tend to go there . . . Dons mix easily with Cambridge undergraduates; at Oxford they sit in an ivory tower. Port is drunk in Oxford; light table wines and sherry at Cambridge...