Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...
...bluefin tuna ("horse mackerel" to old salts) on rod & reel. Up the coast at Liverpool a Cuban team had just won this year's international tuna matches from a U. S. and a British team, in a tournament that fizzled sadly when some killer whales hanging off that harbor scared the big tuna away (or so Liverpudlians claimed) and only a few small school tuna were caught by all the elegant sportsmen with fancy tackle and theories...
...bleak Gull Rock, at the Shelburne harbor mouth, Alf Kenney had cause to marvel more. A monster tuna took his bait and for 4½ hr. he learned what it is like to be attached to an animated submarine. Back aching, arms numb, slim Alf Kenney stuck it out, killed his fish and when it tipped official scales at 864 lb., received congratulations on a new world record-13 lb. heavier than the North Sea tuna caught in 1933 by Mitchell Henry of England...
...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
...harbor at Juneau is indeed ice-free, but not the shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau...