Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...managed railroads which transport their sugar to private seaports, and would place a heavy tax on the use of these private roads. The sugar industry is in large part American-owned, and American interests protested to the State Department that the proposed tax would practically confiscate their railways and port facilities. At that stage of the proceedings Colonel José Miguel Tarafa, author of the bill, left Cuba and went to Washington to defend his measure...
Thus Colonel Tarafa arrived on the American scene, Tarafa the " empire-builder," "the Stinnes of Cuba." He made his case clear to Secretary Hughes. His bill, he said, was not to close the private ports, but to consolidate the railways of Cuba. As long as the sugar companies use their private railroads the "public" roads are at a disadvantage. He declared: " It is not difficult for any one to see that if the 180 sugar centrals in Cuba shall be allowed a private or sub-port . . . there can be no industry in Cuba except the American sugar industry." He proposes...
This consignment was the cargo of the steamer Vulcan and was addressed to the Yugo-Slavian Government. The steamer (port of clearance unknown) put in at Trieste, an Italian port on the Adriatic, and, in the course of unloading, the Italian authorities intervened and seized the cargo...
...first shore visit was at Vancouver, B. C. As the Henderson approached the port an aeroplane of the Royal Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General to have the Maine depart, because if she remained disorders might result. The Consul General cabled the information to Washington...