Word: port
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With the opening of the new port here pilots now feel safe...
...basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise payments; 2) the U. S. requires, under its navigation laws, no clearance for pleasure craft under five tons-the category into which most rum runners fall-bound for a foreign port. For months U. S. officials have been trying to persuade Canada to deny liquor clearance papers, to make it illegal in Canada to export liquor to the U. S. Last week Minister Euler met this U. S. request with a counter-proposition: "If the U. S. will insist upon clearance...
...feverish were New York crowds to see the Bremen during the four days she was in port that even the 70,000 passes which the North German Lloyd issued were not enough. Thousands of pink pier passes were forged, sold to Brooklyn crowds for $1 each...
...send any money. As Horatius defied the armies of Clusium, British shipbuilders stood on the bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy. Not only did the Argentine Navy have no money to pay for the new destroyers, they had no money to pay port dues for their transport, were forced to steam away and use the free anchorage at Cowes, off Southampton. There was no money to buy supplies. Officers and sailors had to beg money from friends to buy food...
...many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds, bad oil stocks, bad loans. There was a credit of $840,000 against the New York Port Terminal Co., a company which was said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value of these assets was figured at a minimum...