Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost every port on the Great Lakes, exuberant civic welcomes awaited the ships. Cleveland geared up a ten-week celebration of the seaway opening. Chicago organized a parade to city hall for the first ship to arrive. Even as the lock gates yawned a welcome to the world's shipping, Midwestern industrialists began to count their gains. In a bow to the seaway's competition, Eastern railroads proposed a reduction of 10% to 30% on freight between the lake ports and the Atlantic seaboard...
...Deux. Undaunted, Tito and Dame Margot a few days later assembled Nola, Elaine and a second shrimper, Mary Ann, to raise the sunken arms. As they brought up the boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
...this maneuver. GOP dairy farmers have milked city residents too long; without the port and industries of the metropolis, the rest of New York would have a few apple orchards and one honeymoon site. If the city secedes, Governor Rockefeller will have to resort to war or blockade, or watch the withered state slowly decay into Mid-Western Lassitude...
...course the plucky Gothamites face the problem of getting supplies. Rockefeller presumably will not let food come into the city via upstate and may even blockade the port with Oyster Bay launches...
...PORT AU Prince, Haiti, April 10--Foreign Minister Louis Mars blamed Communists today for hijacking a Haitian transport plane, killing the pilot, and flying on to Haitian rebel headquarters in Cuba...