Word: debarka
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...some 900 liners a year touch there, most of them unloading onto tenders. The town has protected them with an outside breakwater 27 mi. long, but slowly lost traffic to the great port of Havre up the coast. In 1926 the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, fat with embarkation and debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City of New York. Prime mover was Cherbourg...
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