Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Andover won, 40 to 35, the score would have been reversed if the Crimson had not disqualified in the 150-yard medley relays. Andover's undefeated freestyler, Fred Henderson, was defeated, however, in both the 50 and 100-yard sprints, by Captain Al Rapper port and Mauricio Toro. Rapperport's time of 0:24 in the 50 ties a Harvard freshman record...
...planes, one taking off, the other landing at nearby Newark Airport, crashed in the heart of the city, killing 79 passengers and six of Elizabeth's citizens. City officials blamed the airport for routing the planes over their homes, demanded that the field be shut down. The Port of New York Authority announced that it was rushing work on a new runway that would shunt most of the traffic away from Elizabeth...
...stewardess was the only survivor of the crew of four. Amazingly, 36 of the 59 passengers got out alive. Four residents of the apartment house were killed. The Port of New York Authority closed down Newark Airport, one of the nation's busiest and best, to consider what fate and mechanical failures had done...
...bulk of these tolls will come from American steel companies, shipping iron ore from Labrador to inland American mills. Since the Mesabi iron deposits are running out while the United States' need for steel climbs, the Labrador deposits are becoming more important. The railroad and port lobbies, of course, believe that steel producers--if they need Labrador ore--shall pay for shipping it, rather than charge this cost up to the American tax-payer...
...afield as Argentina, where he designed several of the great grain terminals that still tower over Buenos Aires' waterfront. "When I build them," says Engineer Howe, "they stay built." In an era of relatively light taxes, his firm grossed $10 million a year; overhead in the modest Port Arthur headquarters...