Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government last week yielded to a long yearning on the part of shipping companies to have quarantine regulations modified. For the first time since 1744 ships may tie up in New York Harbor without pausing for medical inspection of passengers and crew. The U. S. Public Health Service and the New York City Health Department hereafter will take the word of the chief medical officers aboard SENIOR SURGEON AKIN "Permission is granted...
...proceed without stopping at Quarantine." most passenger ships which enter the harbor that all is well aboard, that none of the passengers or crew suffers from "quarantinable" diseases, that all cases of "contagious" diseases are isolated. Ships should now dock in New York Harbor at least one hour earlier. As 400,000 incoming voyagers each year have noticed, every ship entering New York dropped anchor at Quarantine off Rosebank, Staten Island. A sailor ran a yellow flag up the mast...
Public Health Service, soon after being appointed Chief Quarantine officer at Rosebank. When an inbound qualified ship is 24 to twelve hours outside New York Harbor, her master and chief medical officer radio: "No known or suspected quarantinable disease nor any prevalence of any contagious or highly infectious disease on board...
...Mayflower awaited them. . . . Lucky are the people who can look back to such a history of toleration and strength as can the Dutch!" The 300-year-old Dutch bell of Manhattan's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard the Dutch liner Statendam in Manhattan harbor, Knickerbocker notables toasted her name and "the truly Dutch name of President Roosevelt" at an eleven-course Dutch dinner. At the Netherlands Club in Gramercy Park, the Royal Dutch wedding caused even the most staid members to down thimbleful after thimbleful of scorching Holland...
Within sight of the harbor the hawser suddenly snaps again, this time cut deliberately by the Greek captain to avoid paying salvage costs...