Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the famed harbor of Rio de Janeiro, which it rivals in magnificence, the harbor of Hong Kong, British Crown Colony, is landlocked by mountains...
Hong Kong harbor, seventh busiest in the world, is always alive with yachts, junks, ferries, sampans, freighters, liners, men-of-war. Last week it was more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
...groceries consigned there were unloaded from ships in San Francisco, other cargoes at Hong Kong and Singapore, until docks groaned. A typhoon, described as the worst in ten years, caused further losses to shippers by wrecking the Hong Kong water front last week, sinking some 20 ships in the harbor and ruining great piles of exposed goods (see p. 18). No lumber, a prime Pacific Coast export, was moving from the U. S. to either combatant, and Japan, conserving her resources, stopped her huge purchases of U. S. scrap iron, probably anticipating that the war would end before it could...
...crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
Since Feb. 1 certain ships entering New York Harbor are allowed "radio pratique." This is the privilege of proceeding directly to dock without necessity of anchoring off Quarantine for medical inspection of passengers and crew. All a ship surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus...