Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benefactor is not the lion who once surrounded himself with mistresses and caused 1,870 monuments to himself to be raised in his capital alone. Last week a onetime Canadian corvette, now called the Presidente Trujillo, lay in Ciudad Trujillo harbor; it was being fitted out with extra new cabins. Dominicans whispered that, elections over, the Benefactor would sail away for France and an operation for an old ailment...
...Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, who had a, go at bottling up the Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor, went a standard honor, nearly half a century after his triumph and ten years after his death: the Hobson manse in Greensboro, Ala. was dedicated as a public shrine...
...morning last week two ships weighed anchor at Three Rivers, where they had been fogbound, and raced up the St. Lawrence River. A few hours later, flying Canadian Pacific's red & white checkered flag, the black-hulled, 10,000-ton cargo liner S.S. Beaverburn steamed into Montreal harbor and tied up at Shed 8. Her skipper, John Bissett Smith, had brought in the first ocean-going ship of the season, and thus officially opened Montreal harbor for 1947 business. For some 125 years, the master of the spring's first overseas ship has been given a gold-headed...
Dockers & Docks. Last year, in the harbor's transit sheds (over 2,000,000 square feet) and grain elevators (15-million-bushel capacity), Montrealers handled nearly a billion tons of cargo. More than 6,000 ships (some 1,600 of them oceangoing) passed through the port's 100 miles of dredged (32½ feet minimum) channel and tied up at its ten miles of berths. A third of the city's 1,000,000-plus population makes a living from the port...
...grey and grimy harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef...