Word: port
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Talking directly to the seaway's opponents, "certain railroads and port interests," Truman warned that Canada would charge-tolls of U.S. ships, perhaps even after the cost of the seaway had been paid off. He argued that an inland (i.e., submarine-proof) route to bring iron ore from Labrador to U.S. steel mills was "of great importance to our national security." Said he: "No great nation has ever deliberately abandoned its interest in any of the vital waterways of the world...
Howe's fame as an elevator engineer spread through the grain country, and he decided to cash in on the demand for his services. In 1916, he set up his own engineering firm in Port Arthur, Ont., Canada's main Great Lakes grain terminal. Later in the same year, he married Alice Martha Worcester, a friend of his M.I.T. days and the daughter of J. R. Worcester, designer of the Boston subway...
...must sail a middle course in an uncertain sea," wrote the President of the U.S. to Congress last week. Harry Truman's middle course, as he went on to chart ft in his budget, lay somewhere between guns and tools on the starboard, and butter on the port. A year ago he had insisted on a "pay-as-you-go" tax program. Now it was clear that he was sailing directly-if regretfully-back into the perilous waters of deep-deficit financing...
Angry Boom. Despite the brief pause for refreshments, Egypt's unforgiving nationalists continued their fight with Britain. At the northern end of the Suez Canal Zone, Prince Fuad's royal salutes were echoed in the rattle of gunfire at Port Said, during a four-hour clash between Britons and guerrillas. In Cairo and Zagazig, the funerals of six Egyptians killed in a clash at Tell el-Kebir led to further rioting. Mourners charged on nightclubs and movie houses like so many Carry Nations, demanding a cessation of frivolity out of respect to the dead...
...Today, the state of Sáo Paulo's 34,000 factories and 700.000 industrial workers turn out half of Brazil's industrial goods. The city consumes more electric power per residential customer than Chicago. Nearly half Brazil's foreign trade funnels through the port of Santos. Sáo Paulo makes 10 million shirts a year, 1,500,000 tires, 721 elevators, 1,000,000 aluminum automobile pistons...