Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, General de Lattre de Tassigny read the news with pursed lips: the expected offensive had come; 30,000 Viet Minh Communists were attacking the eastern end of the highway between Hanoi and the port of Haiphong. Already, the French had lost four small outposts along Route Coloniale...
When Wenzel jumps ship at the South American port of Caleta Colosal, he feels he has reached the world's dead end. It suits him well enough; through hard work and corner-cutting, he is soon the owner of a small fishery. But his business and his hopes go smash when he runs head-on into the big Nitra mining company, which bosses the country. Wenzel has to leave Caleta Colosal because he has persuaded the Nitra workers to strike for 10 pesos more a day. But, like Hemingway's hero in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
...eastern flank of the peninsula, U.N. naval forces bore the brunt of probing the enemy, sapping his buildup, keeping him as much off balance as possible. The port of Wonsan, 80 miles above the parallel and a key traffic hub, was under continuous fire; by week's end it had endured 43 consecutive days of bombardment, a naval record exceeding that achieved in the siege of Vicksburg.* Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, in command of the naval task force off Wonsan, described the operation: "In Wonsan, you cannot walk on the streets. You cannot sleep any time...
...Caine Mutiny confined itself aboard ship and stuck to its central theme, it might have made port as a small classic. Overlong as it is and hampered by a dreary love story, the best of it is still good reading and fine reporting...