Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strategic Finnish railways, for example, run in winter under snow sheds or wood-lined tunnels through the snow, keep punctually on schedule. All winter long the trans-Norwegian Oslo-Bergen Railway speeds on time between Oslo and Bergen, the chief port for England, a run of 320 miles, made twice daily under numerous sheds buried for months beneath from ten to 40 ft. of snow...
...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
From Nova Scotia to North Carolina fog-sirens in shore stations set up a lugubrious caterwauling, and harbors were hideous with metallic moans. A dozen great ships inbound from Europe and the Caribbean, and scores of lesser liners, hove to rather than try to make port. The Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly...
...land there was more trouble. East of the Mississippi, from Alabama to Canada, airports announced "Zero-zero" weather, and air transport stood stock-still. For three days not a plane reached or left the world's busiest port at Newark. In Chicago a lost, invisible plane thrummed round & round the 30-story Furniture Mart for hours. In Alabama Lieut. James L. Majors, U. S. A., tried to land in a fog-wrapped field, crashed, died...
...House Divided quits the Chinese hinterland of peasant and warlord for an unnamed treaty port and for the life of a Chinese student in the U. S. Wang Yuan, son of Wang the Tiger of Sons, is part of the ferment of the "new China" of Sun Yatsen...