Word: port
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance...
...celebration of the "March" or Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
...doing justice to some of the 2,000 bottles of beer, 200 quarts of. champagne carefully selected from among the many which producers had fought for the privilege of presenting to them. But not for lone. In spite of zealous storm detouring, a gale blew up that rent the port stabilizer, buffeted the ship. A reduction of speed became necessary while repairs were being made...
...half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin. One of them, a plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River the ship dipped her nose?notice of an impending countermarch?and turned. Through the tweedy haze she followed the Hudson and was lost to view in a brace of minutes. It was twilight when the Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled...
Portland, Me. In a biting wind through clouds that threatened snow, 50 military and commercial flyers raced and stunted near Portland, Me., last week to commemorate the opening of its airport at Scarboro. It is the first port in a chain of 25 that the Curtiss Flying Service will operate in the East...