Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whoever writes your China articles cannot have followed the Nanking affair with the slightest appreciation of what it was about. There was no firing in reprisal upon Nanking nor has there been by U. S. war vessels upon any Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul...
...circus travel "as far inland as Beaumont, Tex." This city is a port, according to Rand McNally, the Southern Pacific Railroad, my own observations, the United States Shipping Board and other authorities. Of course if Mr. Tully insists that it is inland perhaps you can prevail upon these authorities to change their statements...
Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, that Port San Giovanni di Medua, on the northwestern coast, will be re- named Port Wilson, as promised by Bishop Fan Noli, onetime (1924) Prime Minister, in recognition of Woodrow Wilson's part in consolidating the independence of Albania...
...hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then...
...Columbia, S. C. He is Paul Redfern's father, and together they mapped the course down the Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed in the jungle...