Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blackout in the Capital. Because Argentina's capital is a seaport, lying on the broad, deep estuary called the Río de la Plata, a lot depended on what the navy did. The River Plate fleet, apparently on the rebel side from the start, gathered near the Uruguayan shore of the estuary. Admiral Isaac Rojas, commander of the rebel fleet, proclaimed a blockade of the capital. "The entire navy is heading for Buenos Aires," he said, contradicting repeated government assertions that the high-seas fleet was peaceably anchored at a port in southern Argentina. The rebels threatened...
After listening for hours to Carter eloquently describe a project to make Fort Worth a seaport by dredging the often-dry Trinity River the 350 miles from Fort Worth to the Gulf of Mexico, his good friend Will Rogers gestured for silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile...
...seaport town," said Clough, "prostitution is a biological necessity." Christ tried to stop prostitution and failed, he said, "so why should I?" One-armed piracy, however, is not a sporting thing, thought the mayor: "I don't approve of slot machines. Most of them are fixed so they don't pay off anything...
...they are not even bothering to replant. General Motors closed its assembly plant at Tandjong Priok a few weeks ago after 27 years of operation. Philco Radio and Britain's vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten them; at Bandung, in West Java, a $45 million munitions factory sits unassembled because the officials who imported it forgot also to import technicians to put it into operation...
Velasco, alarmed, climbed into his private car at 10p.m., with only his naval aide and a civilian friend. Driving all night on the perilous, 300-mile road that swings down through the Andes from the capital at Quito, he reached the Pacific seaport of Guayaquil. Seven top officers ordered troops to occupy Quito communications centers, then flew off after him. But the President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when they stepped from their...