Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good tennis, on the outer courts. This was the Veterans' Championship, for players over 45. In the final, onlookers beheld one of the most extraordinary tennists in the U. S., Clarence M. Charest, win the title for the third time, against S. Jarvis Adams, an unseeded oldster from Port Washington...
...whole job would require about four years, directly employ about 4,000 men. The Port Authority, operator of the present Holland Tube, got $10,000,000 in quick cash to order 50,000 tons of cast iron tunnel segments, 2,000 tons of special tunnel nuts and bolts...
...Port Authority loan followed closely on the heels of another grant to New York City for the construction of a three-pronged bridge connecting Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens over Hell Gate. The Public Works Administration was ready to give the city $7,200,000 outright for this triborough span, lend it $37,000,000 more. The Triborough Bridge Authority had yet to sign its Federal loan agreement, arrange for bids on the contract. Estimated employment...
...seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police...
...Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished...