Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the State Department "objected" to the Soviet loan. The objection was unprecedented in that the U. S. bankers interested, since they were not floating the loan but only giving it port facilities, had not asked the State Department to announce its attitude. The objection was impressive, since it put the State Department in the role of a defender of citizens' safe-deposit boxes. The objection was effective. The Chase National notified the State Department that it would "gladly refrain" from carrying out its Soviet depositor's instructions...
...irresistible punctuality of Col. Lindbergh seemed to have faltered. Crowds at Port au Prince, Haiti, scanned the ascending heavens for a winged speck...
Sharp Shooters. Those film-followers who have seen, in prim Cinemactress Lois Moran, a small blonde embodiment of all that a good girl should be, may well be surprised now to see her impersonating, with much undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl...
...women students of accredited schools, to alumni, to parents, professors and teach-ers." Cruises are to begin when school semesters end this summer, to conclude in time for autumn registrations. Ships, carrying both men and women, will sail from Los Angeles and San Francisco, with Seattle an alternative debarkation port. The cruise fare includes railroad transportation...
...roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco and Cayuga of the Finger Lakes in Central New York?trees, orchards, vineyards, farms. Due west of the lakes is Buffalo, great transshipping port for coal and grain...