Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guns can hit airplanes. The Navy Department, last week, issued a re port on 42 practices against towed aerial targets, showed that 20 times the simulated bird-of-war had been caught by anti-aircraft fire. The targets, for physical reasons, were only one-tenth the size of a bombing plane and were flown at altitudes of 4,000 and 5,000 feet. Under these circumstances, the results were deemed highly satisfactory...
...virtue of authority vested in me by act of Congress approved August 1, 1914 . . . ," the President put the ports of Newark and Perth Amboy, N. J., under the authority of the Port of New York, thus eliminating much interstate red-tape...
Rumania owes money to half the countries of Europe. Her debts are notorious. Last year (TIME, Apr. 7, 14, 1924, RUMANIA), Benito Mussolini cancelled a proposed visit of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie to Italy's Royal family. He sent destroyers to Rumania's only port, collected some money...
...Very Reverend William Ralph Inge,* Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, accompanied by Mrs. Inge, arrived at the Port of New York, a second-class passenger on the Cunarder Mauretania...
After the visit was over, the Repulse steamed for Nigeria and the Prince landed at Lagos, but did not stay in that port owing to a recent outbreak of plague. It was previously thought that the whole Nigerian trip would have to be canceled on this account, but the Prince insisted on visiting the country. At first, objections were put forward that the Prince's presence would endanger the health of many thousands of natives; but later, a strict quarantine was ordered and the Prince was enjoined to pass rapidly through Lagos for the hinterland where...