Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important to U. S. business was the effective Federal blockade of the great coffee port of Santos. In the past month only one ship has entered Santos harbor, the Munson Liner Western World which was given clearance papers fortnight ago to carry U. S. citizens from the war zone. New York shipping brokers estimated that the blockade of Santos is costing U. S. shipping companies $15,000 a round trip each. Brazilian warships guarding the harbor received a curious visitation last week. A squadron of rebel bombing planes zoomed overhead in formation, then as sailors rushed to battle stations...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...
...York he lives with his family in a brownstone house on East 18th Street. His wife runs a tearoom on Irving Place, raises cocker spaniels profitably at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Of their five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...
Polite but firm were Presidents Harry Arnold and Henry M. Clarke of the New-York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Associations as they proceeded, one day last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said...
...most respects Capt. von Gronau's latest passage resembled those of 1930 (Chicago via New York Harbor) and 1931 (Chicago via Canada). All originated at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt, where once was one of the world's biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von Gronau is chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This...