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Last week, while Nationalist forces slogged on doggedly toward the seaport of Chefoo, Liu Po-cheng broke loose...
...portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest ocean port of any size to central Canada and to the U.S. Midwest. "If it were not for the barrier of ice," wrote Stephen Leacock, "Montreal might easily be the greatest port in all the world." In 7½ ice-free months Montrealers do their best...
Last week the State Department closed negotiations, asked the Albanian Government for permission to send two destroyers to Durazzo, Albania's No. 1 seaport, to pick up the mission. Petulantly Hoxha refused, instead protested to the U.N. (which has denied Albania membership) that the U.S. request was an "abridgement of Albanian sovereignty." The U.S. Government disdained to answer the protest, solved the problem simply by sending the destroyers to the edge of the three-mile limit. The mission and its baggage were ferried out by small boat...
Frank Joseph Habig easily got 27 fellow marines at Cherry Point, N.C. to chip in $40,000 to back his plan to fly fresh seafood from seaport towns to the Midwest. Last November his Airborne Seafoods, Inc. bought a DC-3. Last week, Airborne was still looking for its first pay load...
...would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would rack the earth as the Antarctic was relieved of ten quadrillion tons of ice which have depressed its land level some 600 feet...