Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abstentions: Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia...
...Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen...
...from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when its two new luxury...
Hardest hit were Israel's 80,000 Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Yemen. Scattered throughout 30 makeshift settlements, shivering families slept in their tents, huddled together for warmth. During the night hundreds of tents were blown down on the frightened refugees...