Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kindly Desist." Setting out from Istanbul by ship, accompanied by newsmen, Gulek ran into government obstructionism right from the start. At his first big port of call, the tobacco town of Samsun, the local governor not only refused Gulek permission to hold a public meeting, but also decreed that he could not even hold a closed meeting with local Republican People's Party committeemen. Coolly, Gulek answered: "We have a perfect right to hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters...
Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
...Italy, men who helped build Andrea Doria wept for her. At her New York pier, men and women wept for the kin they feared she had carried down. But to Manhattan at evening came Ile de France, first rescue ship to reach port. Slipping upriver to a hero's well-deserved cheers and whistles, the French liner docked, unloaded 750-odd survivors, and prepared to hurry off again that same night towards France. Some 30 of the survivors were gently carried on stretchers from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail...
...construction force of 8,000 men, headed by 2,364 Seabees, worked around the clock on Cubi's 8,000-ft. concrete runway, its deepwater port, its extensive ammunition and storage facilities. Cubi has already cost $47 million, will run to $80 million before it is completed in three years...
...noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst...