Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norman Biltz, born a poor boy in Bridge port, Conn, in 1902, for a while seemed destined to run in the jostling and confident pack of those who always see but never seize the glittering tumbleweed of fortune. But after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer's agent and a bond salesman, he switched to real estate and finally reached Nevada with a grandiose scheme, later carried out at a profit of almost half a million dollars, to peddle practically the whole eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. Nevada, at the moment, was in bad shape...
...senior class will receive honors and four of them will graduate summa cum laude. Those getting the highest honor that Radcliffe can confer are Margaret Stuart Bryan of Cambridge; Nancy Harriet Goldring of New York City; Laura Jane Klein of South Orange; and Catherine Lucretia Rubino of Port Chester, New York...
Jimmy went home to New Jersey, raised some cash, bought revolving tubs and pressing machines, and took a two-day course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy...
This week, amid singing and dancing in the street, Jimmy will inaugurate a new, $45,000 branch of his laundry, but this is hardly the whole measure of the change he has brought to Haiti. Dry-cleaning has cleared the way for two big mass-production tailoring shops in Port-au-Prince. Five haberdasheries have opened, and five more dry-cleaners have followed Jimmy into business. Women's ready-to-wear shops have mushroomed. Haiti's women now dress in rayon, taffeta and wool...
...railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...