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Word: ports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Great Britain, whose inept handling of Iran's demands for greater oil royalties had made nationalization a popular issue, ordered the 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia to the port of Abadan. Gleefully, Moscow papers reported the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Aftermath of Murder | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship to any Communist port. Explained Chief Steward Vincent Rottgardt: "We decided on principle. We've been on the anti-Communist side all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Education at Sea | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

There will be no penalties. At week's end the Empire Marshal's charterers cabled that the ship would not be sent to a Communist port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Education at Sea | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy of the Scroll of the Jewish Torah on behalf of the national council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Letter | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Something new in the way of intercollegiate sailing will be inaugurated today when the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, Port Washington, Long Island, opposes a picked team of New England intercollegiate Sailing Association All-Starts in a team Dinghy racing match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scully, Bishop Sail in All-Star Dinghy Meet | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

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