Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Public Works Administrator Ickes agreed to lend the Port of New York Authority $37,500,000 at 4% with which to drive a second automobile tunnel from Manhattan (West 39th Street) under the Hudson River to New Jersey (Wee-hawken). Work was to start in 60 days...
...line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being able to advertise "The Longest Gangplank In The World" as does the French Line whose ships tie up at Havre. Shipmen argue that the Municipality of Cherbourg built its deep-water port and docks with money collected from travelers as a port tax, should therefore feel morally bound to cut its rates for the comfort of travelers who still pay the port tax even when embarking or debarking on Cherbourg tenders...
...Italy will set aside for Austria a free zone in the port of Trieste...
...Austria will have the opportunity of buying or building a merchant fleet, which with Trieste as its home port will put the red & white ensign on the seas again...
...Miami was awarded the master contract for the terminal building. The base will provide for the simultaneous arrival of four of Pan American's huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been dredged straight out into Biscayne...