Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numberless Chinese fled inland from their homes. Ten thousand fled from President Chiang's own Nanking. Then in Nanking arrived British Minister Sir Miles Lampson and U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson with his bride. Chinese who had fled at once came back. The Japanese war boats in the harbor would not fire, figured the Chinese, so long as there was any risk of hitting Sir Miles or the Johnsons, bride & groom...
...unveiled the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, 250,000 pilgrims and nearly all the 1,447,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, toiled up last week to Corcovado Mountain, nearly half a mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth...
...United States has no single harbor equipped to maintain the Atlantic fleet in case of war," Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N. retired, stated to a gathering in the Adams House common room in the course of a discussion of over two hours which broke up with the center table covered with matches illustrating the "ripple movement" at the Battle of Jutland...
...Neither the much discussed New York or Boston harbor and navy yard is designed or equipped to act as a fleet base," the Admiral declared. "Naval opinion is and has long been unanimous that Narragansett Bay, with Block Island for its Helgoland, with one of the finest harbors in the world, and located farthest East, towards any possible enemy's lines, is the logical base...
...mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat; at 9 p. m. she put down on Sydney Harbor with ten minutes' fuel supply in her tanks; at midnight, refueled, she flew on again in the darkness...