Word: portal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. The I. C. C. gives them until July 1930 to come to an agreement as to how they would operate the cutoff. Until this or some other connection with the D. R. G. W. is made, the Denver Salt Lake's Moffat tunnel remains an impressive portal to nowhere...
...month prior this main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico had been slammed closed because Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had threatened to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time President of Mexico, on an old murder conspiracy charge. Born a Spaniard, Vails had once been a Mexican officeholder under Diaz. Naturalized a U. S. citizen after Diaz's fall, he flaunted his political hostility to the new Mexican regime by threatening its still-strongest figure...
...pleasantly clear the incoming planes. Canada has ten such ports of entry-Fredericton (seaplane station), N. B., Hamilton, Ont., Leaside (near Toronto), Ont., Lethbridge, Alta., Montreal (seaplane station), St. Hubert (at Montreal), Moose Jaw, Sask., Regina, Sask., Virden, Man., Winnipeg, Man. The U. S. has nine-Pembina, N. Dak., Portal, N. Dak., Port Angeles, Wash., Seattle, Newport. Vt., Albany, Buffalo, Detroit. St. Paul...