Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...split-pea industry was seriously threatened by importations from China. A Port Huron, Mich., witness extolled the power-producing qualities of U. S.. split-pea soup. In a test, he said, cross-country runners were fed for 16 days on split-pea soup and they got 65 miles to the gallon...
...good ship Coolidge is approaching its final port. Soon there will be a general debarkation of officeholders, a great sifting of and searching for new berths. Wise political mariners quit their vessel just before she docks and thus avoid the gangplank congestion around March...
...second time Capt. Fried had entered port a hero. Three years ago, when master of the President Roosevelt, he rescued 25 men from the foundering British tramp steamer Antinöe after three and one-half days of labor...
...That designation delighted Newark's Mayor Jerome T. Congleton, who leaves no trick unturned to advance the importance of his city as a sea and air port, as a railroad terminal...
...most significant flyers of 1928. It was a specialists' tribute to specialists. The names form an epitome of air adventure. Capt. Arturo Ferrarin of Italy, his fel lows believe, accomplished the best feat of the year. With Major Carlo Delprete, he flew non-stop from Rome to Port Natal, Brazil, 4,417 miles in 51 hr. 59 min. Capt. Ferrarin's predecessor, in 1927, was of course Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh - New York-Paris, 3,600 miles, 33 hr. 30 min., all alone...