Word: leghorn
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...harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York...
Married- Aldo Nadi, 37, of Leghorn, Italy, world's fencing champion; and Rosemary Wallace, onetime Follies girl; in Greenwich, Conn...
...King of France offered a title to the man who captured him, dead or alive. Back on his farm in Wales, Mr. Bulkeley commented little on his son-in-law's fame. He noted more unsuccessful lawsuits, letters from his daughter telling of her being mistreated, abandoned in Leghorn, cheated of her husband's fortune after his death. Fortunatus Wright, it seemed, had another wife. Presently Mr. Bulkeley's destitute grandchildren began to straggle back to Wales, first two, then their mother, then three more, until the old gentleman lamented his "troublesome days" and stopped writing about...
When Berley Winton, poultry expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was informed by the Press last week that a Japanese farmer named Kichi Fujikura claimed a new world's record of 361 eggs in a year for his Leghorn hen, he grudgingly exclaimed: "That's mighty fine, but the farmer's claims are unofficial. We don't recognize them...
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...