Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron riches lay virtually untouched until 1950. when a Bethlehem Steel Corp. subsidiary began mining El Pao. The ore traveled by rail to the Orinoco, then by shallow-draft vessel to deep-water Puerto de Hierro (Iron Port). In early 1954, a U.S. Steel Corp. subsidiary, Orinoco Mining Co., sent its first load of Cerro Bolivar ore down the river. Orinoco Mining has spent $230 million on its Cerro Bolivar mine and the installations that go with it: a trim little company town near the base of the mountain; a river port (Puerto Ordaz); 90 miles of railroad...
...French aircraft, the rusty white 400-tonner with the chipped smokestack never had a chance. As she zigzagged into Algerian waters last week a French destroyer escort hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under the hatches: "A floating arsenal." When the old vessel's contraband cargo was laid out on the quay at Mers-el-Kebir, the French army found sufficient mortars, machine guns, rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas...
...lane of Track Charlie, the "informal" sea lane marked out by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: although the Italians and Swedes do not necessarily observe Track Charlie, Captain Calamai testified that he usually did, and that never in his 100 transatlantic crossings had he come upon an eastbound vessel running close to the westbound lane...
...Board finally agreed last week to allow American Coal Shipping Inc., an export company formed by Lewis' U.M.W., seven coal producers and three coal-hauling railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe, South America and Japan. Though many shipping lines protested bitterly, Lewis and friends argued that the fleet will be able to carry 2,500,000 tons more coal each year, thus provide more jobs for U.S. seamen besides helping...
...people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass through the canal-for eight years the Egyptians have barred all Israeli ships and have halted eight ships of other flags on the way to or from Haifa with Israeli cargoes, in defiance of the Constantinople Convention...