Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Washington...
None of this year's grain "racers" had a radio. Ten of them belonged to Captain Gustaf Erikson, a retired master mariner of Mariehamn, Finland. Though every ship had a 100 A-1 rating at Lloyd's, one or more might vanish, capsize or stagger into port without masts. Running far out of the steamer routes, few planned to show lights at night. Most would take four months, some five, a few would crowd to get in under three months...
...highest insurance on wheat cargoes ($1.75 per $100 value in mid-October) is carried by ships out of Canada's new artificial Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay (TIME. Sept. 14, 1931). Last October the 5. S. Bright Fan, out of Churchill with 253,000 bu. of wheat, steered off her course in Hudson Strait, her compass swung untrue by the nearby north magnetic pole. She crashed into an iceberg and went down in three hours in 900 ft. of water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...
With six pens and a happy smile President Roosevelt last week brought into being the Tennessee Valley Authority, another administrative engine for planned economy. Modeled after the Port of New York Authority, this independent Federal agency, with its own credit and its own crew, is to undertake what the President had called "the widest experiment ever conducted by a government"-the industrial development of a 640,000-sq. mi. watershed. Its domain starts in the wooded heights of the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains, sweeps down past Knoxville and Chattanooga, dips into Alabama at Muscle Shoals, turns north through...