Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing Senator Copeland turned a stony ear remarking: "This is an American committee considering the American merchant marine. We have no place for aliens." Meantime the Senator put on the witness stand the A. F. of L.'s maritime strongman, Joseph P. Ryan, boss of the Port of New York. Burly Mr. Ryan blandly assumed that everyone knew that...
...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function as a centre of all aviation in Germany. At one end of a surfaced, oval landing field, with 10,000-ft. runways, will curve a full mile of administration buildings, restaurants, hangars...
...road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit landing there in 60 days. This speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt on the ground that no private concern should own the Capital's airport. Threatened with loss of their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use the field. Before last session's Congress Vermont's Republican Representative Charles A. Plumley thundered, "Washington...
Last week, after spending several years trying to find a new plot, Playwright Lonsdale turned up with an old one. It led off with a butler, a decanter of port and the Sunday Observer, and soon made plain that the Duke of Hampshire (Hugh Williams) was carrying on with Liz Pleydell (Viola Keats) and that the Duchess (Ina Claire) wasn't going to be too obliging about it. From then on, the situations were as familiar to veteran Lonsdaliers as are way stations to veteran commuters...