Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five piers, Nos. 12 through 16, make up the new free port, which has an area of 78 acres. Of this, 60 acres are the murky waters of the bay, 18 are solid land. A 12-ft. wire fence, costing $30,000, has been laced around the solid acres. To bar the bay to smugglers, two photoelectric eyes stare steadily across the half-mile harbor entrance...
Ships bringing goods into New York Harbor may unload at the free port without so much as a by-your-leave to the U. S. Treasury. In this zone, operated as a public utility under Federal supervision, goods may be "stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, distributed, sorted, graded, cleaned, mixed with foreign or domestic merchandise," and finally re-exported 1) to foreign countries or 2) to the U. S. by paying duty in the ordinary way. The various operations that can be performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden...
Though many authorities question the project's profitableness, New York City expects to make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse will run to $150,000, half again as much revenue as the Hylan piers have yielded in late years. That no eager freighters plowed past the vigilant electric eyes last week was due, according to Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, to the fact that foreign shippers were not yet used...
...unremembered Freeport whence came the first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
Eastward the Cardinal's passage was almost regal. He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore. But always during the 22 days the Conte Rosso sped eastward the ship's wireless brought disturbing word of the Holy Father's health. Fifteen years ago storms at sea kept Dennis Cardinal' Dougherty from taking part in the conclave which elected Pope Pius XI after the death of Benedict XV. Last month, honored though he was as the first...