Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty's ship Eiswold sailed into Amsterdam Harbor amid salvos from Dutch cruisers firing a royal salute: King Haakon VII of Norway had come...
...trod on the toes of Brooklyn by awarding the contract to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company instead of to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which made the lower bid. Accordingly Mayor Hylan (who lives in Brooklyn, ''Bushwick Section") announced: "If Chairman Lasker expects to get consideration around the Harbor of New York, he's got to give consideration to the working men of Brooklyn." All action on the application to lease Pier 86 for the Leviathan was postponed for two weeks...
...power boat Napeague ran into New York Harbor flying red flags at bow and stern. A coast guard cutter approached and the Captain of the Napeague shouted: "Keep away from us. We are loaded with dynamite ! " But the coast guards boarded the Napeague and found 1,600 cases of whiskey under her tarpaulins...
What was once the German ship Prince Eitel Friedrich, and is now the transport U. S. Grant, sailed out of New York Harbor for Porto Rico, the Panama Canal, San Francisco and Honolulu. Aboard were 19 Army officers and 980 troops destined for various posts. In addition, the passengers included Secretary of War Weeks, Mrs. Weeks and 27 Senators and Representatives, most of them with their wives, a few with their children. Each of the civilians will pay $2 a day for his food, just as Army officers do aboard transports. Otherwise, the trip will be free...
...economic resources in Turkey, it might seem indeed that the United States must come in conflict with the rival claims of France and Great Britain. Turkey, with the smartness of a child, has admitted that she aimed at some such complication in giving to Rear-Admiral Chester railroad and harbor privileges previously promised to France and extensive oil rights held out at one time to Great Britain...