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. No ordinary ship did he greet but a model ship sent to start the flow of trade between the U. S. and Russia, sent to win U. S. admiration for all things Communistic...
...Aged like Scotch whiskey in empty sherry casks, it is the only rum to be distilled from the whole fresh juice of the sugar cane and not from sugar lees of blackstrap molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen to produce a cheaper spirit for export, good enough in quality to compete with the "vulgar" rums of Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, low enough...
Feted in every port, they got their biggest reception in Venezuela. There old Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gomez declared a public holiday, motored them over 300 mi. of flower-strewn highway, spent $20,000 out of his own pocket to give them a luncheon and ball, pay all their expenses...
...Smith retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference of opinion between...
...around the shores of Manhattan Island and in some of the more desolate districts of Brooklyn, these '"old-law" tenements (with a scattering of new) constitute the New York City slums-the worst of any big city in the world with the possible exception of Shanghai, Istanbul, London, Port Said and Bombay. In these plague spots live some 1,500,000 people. Two, three, four families pack into one flat. In summer the heat is stifling. In winter icicles from burst plumbing form on the hall ceilings. Refuse piles up in airshafts 15 feet deep. Basements are cluttered with...