Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section of the rail line to the coast, derailed 20 cars of a freight train in a psychological shock of their own. But the tracks were hastily repaired, the armed guard increased, and by week's end the first oil safely reached Philippeville for loading aboard a ship bound for France. In a few years, predicted Max Lejeune, France will be self-supporting in its oil needs, will rank as one of the world's largest oil powers...
...winds moved over the Atlantic, they blew a little good. The jet stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours. A few days later...
...Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
...GERMAN ATOM DEALS are cooking. North American Aviation will join with Ruhr's giant Demag construction firm to form "Interatom"; each partner will put up $750,000 at first, and North American will ship reactors to West Germany, where Demag will assemble and sell them. Westinghouse will license Germany's Siemens, No. 2 electrical manufacturer in Europe, to build and sell reactors similar to one now generating power at Shippingport, Pa. Westinghouse has signed same deal with Belgian, Italian firms...
...Naples came boiling into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...