Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, news of several expensive failures at the Port of New York reached the ears of lady tourists still abroad...
...then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...
...eight people in the Banker's party (including a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren) were given free entry of the port because his trip had been on government business. But Banker Morgan, unaware of the honored privilege, had already declared his luggage and permitted a customs inspector to open three suitcases and examine their contents. Perhaps never had so great a banker appeared in so happy a light...
...railway will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed...
...Houdini. Other prominent national members include the following amateurs: Artist Harlan Tarbell of Chicago, Patent Attorney J. C. Wobensmith of Philadelphia, Royal C. Vilas of Bridgeport, Conn. The New York chapter is headed by Lawyer Bernard M. L. Ernst. Its officers include Leo Rullman, acting Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and Dentist Lionel Hartley...