Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficient manner. All this would entertain and instruct Senor Welles during the irksome time that his baggage was being landed. The arrival and landing of Ambassador Welles was not quite according to schedule. For some unexplained reason he disembarked with Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Reed at the port captain's pier instead of at the dock where the Machado reception committee was waiting for him. Embarrassed by advance publicity, the great "Red Riot" was called off. but again there was confusion. Half an hour after the scheduled time, 50 pseudo-Communists turned up at the pier...
...Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King boys followed him to the new school. Headmaster Shortlidge, now 49, found Tome's celebrated neo-Colonial plant wisely financed, well-staffed but half-empty. Built to accommodate 200 students. Tome had this...
...Westphalen cleared the port of Bremerhaven last week with a curious destination on her logbook: "Long. 25° W. Lat. 5° X." There, in the South Atlantic. just above the Equator and midway between Africa and South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern...
...Soviet Water Transport Commissariat further ordered chiefs of Russian ports to charge British ships higher port duties than the preferential duties paid under the old Soviet-British trade agreement...
Anti-occupationists in Haiti could smile wryly at the U. S. Government's discomfiture last week. For months rumors had seeped through the steaming black republic that crookedness was being investigated in the U. S.-controlled customs house at Port-au-Prince...