Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerks' hiring hall. C. I. O.'s West Coast Director Harry Bridges, scenting a sly device to undermine his forces and promote an "independent" association of American-Hawaiian employes, forbade his longshoremen to load the company's ships. San Francisco waterfront employers in retaliation closed the port, contending that issues beyond the pay status of ten clerks were involved. While both sides fussed over the terms by which this tempest in a pay envelope might be arbitrated, A. F. of L.'s seamen cooperated with C. I. O.'s shore workers in refusing to pass...
...Japanese soldiers tightened their two-weeks-old blockade on the British Concession; at Chefoo and Tsingtao Japanese officials sponsored anti-British demonstrations; at Shanghai British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr was surrounded with a heavy guard after "terrorists" had threatened his life; the Japanese captured one Chinese port, closed another, attacked two more (Foochow, Wenchow); at Hong Kong British troops feverishly erected barbed wire entanglements and built pillbox fortifications; at Singapore 44 French and British naval, military and air officers conferred on "common action" in the Far East...
...last week the "China incident," as the Japanese call the two-year-old war in China (see p.29) developed into more than a matter of yellow man killing yellow man. At the port of Tientsin, gateway to Peking and one of the first cities to fall to the Japanese, Japanese soldiers surrounded and blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West...
...occupied areas for some time, actually sank below the value of the Chinese dollar. Moreover, the Japanese cannot get needed foreign exchange from China with which to buy planes, oil and scrap iron so long as deals on China's coastal soil are cleared through western treaty port banks...
...John West tried a novel scheme. He wrote a note, made 81 copies, slipped each copy into a bottle, mailed the bottles to 81 advertising agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your way. Have you room in the hold for a man who can prove he's worth his salt?" Soon John West began to get replies. Said one: "Altering...