Word: unload
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limp economy. The few paved roads and sizable buildings are relics of the Italian occupation. There are no private cars or buses; Albanians travel from village to village by donkey or in open trucks. The only railroad is scarcely 70 miles long, and the main seaport at Durres can unload only one ship at a time...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...
...have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare of every Indian was assured...
...Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together to the State Department to urge Rusk to reconsider. Cabell was greatly worried about the vulnerability to air attack of the ships and then of the troops on the beach. Rusk was not impressed. The ships, he suggested, could unload and retire to the open sea before daylight; as for the troops ashore being unduly inconvenienced by Castro's air, it had been his experience as a colonel in the Burma theater that air attack could be more of a nuisance than a danger. One fact he made absolutely...
...Lady Bird Johnson, 48, who was already buying radio stations when her Vice President husband was just another new boy in Congress, was still feathering the L.B.J. nest. Having picked up KRGV-AM-TV in Weslaco, Texas, for a $245,000 song a few years back, she managed to unload it for a rhapsodic...