Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand tiller which, to keep the boat on a straight course, the skipper must shift as the wind changes. Said the President: A year ago when inflation threatened, the helm was shifted far to starboard. Last autumn, warned of a threatened deflation, the Administration put it hard to port. While his listeners were trying to calculate what, if anything, all this meant in terms of political Right & Left, the President made his main point: that to regard a shift of the helm as a shift of policy was a fundamental error-of which reporters are often guilty because it makes...
...office of Collector of Customs for the Port of Los Angeles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the recommendation of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, appointed a well-to-do 48-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who bears one of the most famed names in U. S. political history: William Jennings Bryan...
Hottest city in the world is reputedly the Persian Gulf port of Muscat, capital of the arid little (82,000 sq. mi.) independent Sultanate of Oman, where the average rainfall is only 3½ in. a year. In September 1833, U. S. Special Agent Edmund Roberts visited Muscat to sign a treaty with His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed...
Fiume. After the War only a crazy man or a genius would have thought of attempting to seize the Austrian port of Fiume with a few hundred Italian stalwarts, defying the Paris Peace Conference and high-minded Woodrow Wilson, who was at the zenith of his efforts to end seizures by force. For 15 months D'Annunzio ruled Fiume as its fantastic Dictator, among other things granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew...
...Mark Time-Make Time, Use the Lincoln Tunnel." This was the prize-winning slogan selected last week by the Port of New York Authority to advertise its newest tunnel. Meanwhile Travelers Insurance Co. was doing a little advertising of its own. Its 38-page booklet, addressed to those who wish to "make time," was grimly titled "Death Begins at 40." The title referred to the fact that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year...