Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only the Best." Since Nasser seized the canal, his men have put 28,949 ships through without a single serious accident. One day last March an alltime record of 84 ships passed through the canal. By all signs, this month will set another record. Last August the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot...
...concubines, he is regarded as personally incorruptible. He has long felt that Arab countries should share in profits made on their oil outside the country as well as in it. Last December he struck an offshore oil deal with Japanese oilmen for an "integrated company" that would produce, ship and market Saudi oil and split profits 56-44 all the way up to the filling-station pump...
...their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship as salvage. With the help of a misanthropic messmate, he actually makes a good start on this project but meets his match in a courageous captain (James Mason) and a ravishing Maori girl (Dorothy Dandridge). Not that it matters, but the title is misleading. Since the picture...
...indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many maritime uses, is on sale by most ship chandlers...
...Dixie Diehards comprehend what our country's protection on the high seas would be like if say, off Quemoy, a ship's boiler room shut down because the whites wouldn't work with the Negroes? (YN2) S. C. SHERBURNE U.S.N...