Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port of Elath. The U.S. said that it was all a matter...
Even outside metropolitan areas, most small-town weeklies, from the Reedsport, Ore. Port Umpqua Courier (circ. 1,620) to the Lexington Park (Md.) Enterprise (circ. 2,356), have thrown out the smudgy type and bumpkin prose that once characterized the weekly press, now run staff-written stories and editorials instead of the boilerplate and canned sermons that once crammed country papers. The old-time jack-of-all-trades country editor has been largely supplanted by trained staffs. Lured out of the cities by the prospect of editorial and economic independence, trained newsmen in increasing numbers are bringing professional standards...
Goliath in Pee Wee. Once a thriving river port. Ravenswood had a population of barely 2,000 when Kaiser bought 2,500 acres of land in 1954 for a plant to process its Louisiana bauxite and supply its East Coast markets. Planned employment by 1958: 5,000. From the start. Kaiser realized that one of its biggest problems was, as one Kaiser official put it, "to prepare these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them...
...partner in the enterprise. Gulf will press ahead in semi-autonomous Sicily where operations are governed by a more favorable oil law. This week, as Gulf's field in Ragusa, Sicily hit 18,000 bbls. a day, it opened a 14-in. pipeline to the port of Augusta, announced plans for a sharp step-up in production...
...WHATEVER COST, by R. W. Thompson (215 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), tells the story of the famed 1942 raid against the German-held port of Dieppe, in which 6,100 officers and men (mostly Canadians) started out and less than a third returned. For months, reconnaissance aircraft had surveyed German defense, but when the raid started, German artillery slid out of hideaways in the cliffs, poured shells point-blank into men and landing craft. The "average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering...