Word: horta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horta, port of the Island of Fayal in the Azores, can hardly be called a port, although it has a thriving farming and fishing population. Steamships send in loads of travelers by lighter, but ships of the air have found it a port of great value. Since May 1919, when the NC-4, U. S. flying boat, boomed proudly in from the first crossing of the Atlantic, many flyers have used it as a real or potential haven. The German ZR-3, now the Los Angeles, flew over it. The Graf Zeppelin flew over it. It forms an ideal hopping...
Fayal has a population of 20,000; Horta, its main port, 7,000. The island is owned by Portugal. The 69 square miles of Fayal is very mountainous and should furnish plenty of exercise for any aspiring mountain climbers among the R. O. T. C. unit...