Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...together by a water highway carrying 41 million tons of freight some 7 billion ton-miles annually-more tonnage over a greater distance than either the Kiel or the Panama Canal. Touching every major Gulf port, it has helped boost New Orleans into the nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings...
...finance 344,000 kw. of new power capacity for industry; Norway, $25 million to expand its enormous Tokke power project by 400,000 kw., eventually bring it to 800,000 kw.; Burma, two loans totaling $19.4 million to help improve its Toonerville railroads, turn Rangoon into a first-class seaport with new cargo berths, warehouses, dredges and tugs...
...Here I am. Here I stay," reads the inscription on a war memorial in Philippeville, but few of the 35,000 Europeans living on their raw nerves in or near the embattled Algerian seaport now feel like making it their own motto. In the days before the restless, roving bands of fellagha began pillaging, burning, looting, killing, and destroying all that the French had brought to their country, busy, picturesque Philippeville had hoped to become "the Nice of Algeria...
...name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps the world's most crowded slums, where as many as 40 may live in a space 18 ft. by 14 ft., and along some of the poorer, barren slopes, there are great barnacle collections of kindling-and-paper shacks, where 200,000 squatters live...