Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien. In taking charge of the nation's greatest city, Mayor LaGuardia promised a mighty program of reforms ranging from slum eradication to making Staten Island a free port...
...names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with no intention of ever importing a drop. These gentry of late have proceeded to approach legitimate importing houses with excess quota orders and offer to sell them their unused permits at a fancy premium. Since New York is the port through which most imported liquor arrives, FACA wrote to Edward P. Mulrooney, head of the state liquor board, urging an immediate investigation of the practice. FACAdministrator Joseph Choate Jr. dropped his studies on the problem of fixing an import quota for sake long enough to declare...
...advise him on legal points, a Manhattan lawyer, who was decorated by the French Legion of Honor, and who served his city well on its unique Port Authority: Paul Windels...
...gospelers for their infant industry, Australians insisted last week that if U. S. citizens are denied the delights of Australian Para Port, Michenbury Sparkling Burgundy and Chateau Tanunda Brandy, then Premier Lyons must restrict by quota the import into Australia of U. S. motor cars. Premier Lyons, calmer than most of his fellow citizens, made no open threats, quietly approached President Roosevelt through diplomatic channels as one "good neighbor'' to another...
That night he and his son entrained for Manhattan to make an advance inspection of the "Ford Exposition of Progress" in the new Port Authority Commerce Building on Manhattan's lower west side. There were exhibits brought from Dearborn: Ford's original machine shop, an 1863 Austin steamer, a one-cylinder Cadillac of 1902, the first Ford Model A of 1903, Ford's "999" racer with which he broke the world's speed record in 1902, the first Model T, the 15-millionth and 20-millionth Ford. Against this background, the Ford 1934 models were unveiled...