Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Circling German naval planes, which were said to have driven off an attempted attack by the British submarine, accompanied the Bremen into port...
BERLIN--The $20,000,000 German luxury liner Bremen docked tonight at a German port, believed to be Bremershaven, after defeating Great Britain's sea blockade and escaping narrowly from a British submarine, the Nazi-high command announced...
...liner came into port after a dramatic dash from the Russian port of Murmausk, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle...
Three weeks ago Port of New York Authority pointed out that while Manhattan's railroad freight tonnage had dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...biggest, American, which grabbed three hangars, is now operating 84 of the 138 in-and outbound flights daily from the field. Other tenants are United, TWA, Canadian Colonial, Eastern, still operating from Newark, is belatedly readying to join the others. And from faraway Port Washington (20 miles from Grand Central) Pan American Airways will move to North Beach next year...