Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week, the S. S. President Jefferson tied up in Manila harbor and 376 refugees, evacuated from Shanghai three days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...Down upon the glassy harbor of Port Washington, L. I. settled a four-motored Lufthansa seaplane with swastikas on her tail, Nordmeer in large letters on her flank. Considerably larger than the two twin-motored German flying boats which crossed the Atlantic several times last summer (TIME, Sept. 21), she had been catapulted from the Azores, made the 2,392 miles in 16 hr. 28 min. without incident...
These nonchalant flights last week were so long expected and so perfectly executed that they caused no more of a ripple in the U. S. press than they had aroused in Port Washington's harbor. What did cause headlines last week was the final laying of transatlantic rumors which have tickled U. S. aviators' ears for months...
Last week, his hospitalizing activities received much unwanted publicity. The Italian hospital ship Helouan caught fire, burned to the water's edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding...
...colitis aboard his yacht Philante in New Harbor, off Block Island, R. L, lay Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America...