Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strongly Recommended." Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post...
...moved beyond policing to make one of the great decisions of his life. He sent the U.S.S. Nashville into the port of Colon in Panama to give implicit support to a Panamanian rebellion against Panama's colonial overlord, Colombia. His eventual intention, of course, was to seize or to negotiate possession of a canal zone in Panama, dig the canal, and that way safeguard the defenses of both coasts of the U.S. Said T.R.: "It was imperative ... of vital necessity...
...seized from the British after the Suez invasion. Increasingly common, too, are old French small arms, apparently supplied by the Syrians, whose army has been recently re-equipped with up-to-date Czech weapons. Both Egypt and Syria, say French intelligence officers, ship their lethal gifts to the Libyan port of Tripoli, where they are picked up by a fleet of Mercedes trucks maintained by the F.L.N. From Tripoli the guns are trucked along the main coastal highway to Tunis...
Since then, with interruptions caused by war with Egypt and lack of funds. Archaeologist Prausnitz. 34. has uncovered the floor of a large church, part of what used to be a busy port town, probably called Nea Come in the days of Emperor Constantine. Christians broke their journey there on the road from Tyre to Caesarea...
...after them got stalled too. The New York Central reported its long-haul trains running between New York and Chicago as much as 20 hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after the storm, a collision between two empty trains on the New Haven near Port Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters, for as much as eight hours. No sooner was that mess cleared up than two more derailments on successive days snarled the New Haven all over again. In jampacked stations along the coast, schedules and timetables became meaningless...