Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From halfway around the world, TIME-Reader George Willstead Rodrigues recently wrote us about his job as an assistant harbor master of the Calcutta Port Trust. The Calcutta harbor is one of the world's most difficult to navigate. And one of the toughest jobs there is that of the assistant harbor master, who pilots ships up the treacherous Hooghly, one of the several mouths of India's sacred Ganges...
Died. Captain Warner R. Edsall, 48, skipper since last September of the battleship Missouri; of a heart attack; aboard his ship in Sasebo harbor, Japan...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Underneath Washington Street the subways cross each other. It is there that Boston's retailing prototype, the department stores, have buried their foundation deep in harbor mud to catch the swirling masses before they reach the light...
...helicopter's 15-minute airborne flight will follow the Charles River from Boston Harbor, Captain Johnson stated yesterday, because of a Civil Aeronanties Association ruling which prescribes a 3000-foot-minimum ceiling over congested areas...