Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greet one of his country's freighters. But last week Comrade Alexander Troyanovsky, knowing well there was no better way he could cater to his country's pride, descended to Brooklyn's grimy docks, greeted the first Russian ship to put into a U. S. port in 17 years...
...statement contained in the last sentence above quoted is incorrect. The Kim is not the first Russian ship to visit a U. S. port in 17 years. The Russian ship Vazlaz Vorovsky entered this port on March 23, 1925. There were women in the crew of the Vazlaz Vorovsky as there were in the crew of the Kim. The cargo of the Vazlaz Vorovsky consisted of bulk sylvinite and bulk manure salt...
...most amazing chapter last week held the Midwest enthralled. That chapter began on March 3 when, with a wooden gun, John Dillinger bluffed his way out of jail at Crown Point, escaped in the woman sheriff's car, taking a negro murderer named Herbert Youngblood with him. (At Port Huron, Mich. Fugitive Youngblood fatally wounded a sheriff before he himself was killed.) From Crown Point in seven weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health officer...
...presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...
...When the last U. S. Marine sails away from Port-au-Prince next November, there will be left behind, Congress permitting, much Marine equipment as a gift to the native Garde d'Haiti...