Word: port
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...Last week the White House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...
Coach Brown followed his usual policy of rowing men on both sides of the boat thereby creating a facility in handling either a port or a starboard oar, which facility doubles the man's chance to find a place in one of the varsity boats. In addition to this shifting, the head coach adhered to his policy of rotating various men in the stroke position and also in the coxswain's seat. As in the past under Coach Brown, the ultimate choice of a cox will rest with the oarsmen themselves...
Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation...
...returned to Rome, was partial revelation made of what he accomplished. Much has still to be revealed. But these things are known: 1) Italy has leased to Abyssinia for 130 years the use of a corridor through the Italian colony of Eritrea to the Red Sea, and the port of Assab; 2) Under an Italo-Abyssinian "Treaty of Amity and Arbitration" Italian financiers enjoy an option of financing any concessions which may be let along the new trade route from Assab to Addis Ababa; 3) A railroad to serve this route will be built, partly by Italian and partly...
Tangier. Another signal triumph for Benito Mussolini was the success of his emissaries, last summer, in negotiations with representatives of Spain, France and Great Britain respecting control of the internationalized port of Tangier, just across the strait from Gibraltar. Without entering into details it may fairly be said that Il Duce obtained all that he sought and secured potent Italian participation in the policing and control of Tangier...