Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water delivering power, the boat won't have a chance to check--hence the crew's name. "Perpetual Commotion." Likewise, to counteract the ill effects of individual oarsmen rolling out, all eight men loan out both at the catch and the recovery, thereby assuring a perfect set-up, port balancing starbeard...
Socialistic Army Sirs: I happened to pick up a copy of TIME for Feb. 5, and note your statement that the Port of New York Authority is "unquestionably the most impressive example of successful Socialism in the U. S." I wonder if anyone has ever called your attention to the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the U. S. Postoffice, and the U. S. Public School system? UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...Adopted 39-to-28 the Conference re port on the Bankhead Cotton Control Bill, virtually in the form in which it was originally passed by the House (to limit cotton production to 10,000,000 bales by imposing a 50% tax on any cotton farmers produce above their quotas - and no quota exemptions for small farmers...
...down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port of Panderma where, still guarded by six Turks, he entrained for Smyrna...
...freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa...