Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syrian mandate, 3) Turkey and France shall "guarantee its international integrity." Foreign Minister Dr. Aras knew that this "strictly legal and just settlement" would give Dictator Kamal Atatürk virtual dominion of Alexandretta, that Turks would have free access for their goods through Alexandretta's economically vital port...
There are eleven Freeports in the U. S.*, but last week the U. S. got its first free port-a small, ugly plot at Stapleton, Staten Island, in New York Harbor's Narrows...
Much as customs inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports...
...took the Russians eight months to steam the 18.000 miles to their rendezvous with Togo and Death. Long before they got there they knew they were heading for destruction. Less than halfway came the news that their squadron at Port Arthur had been wiped out, the remnants of the Pacific Fleet bottled up at Vladivostok. With every sea-mile it became more apparent that their own hastily-assembled armada was in no shape for a cruise, let alone a fight. Many of their ships were obsolete, the crews ignorant, ill-fed, mutinous. The commander, Admiral Rozhestvensky, an egotistical apoplectic, kept...
With the results of the vote of more than 40,000 Pacific Coast maritime workers announced yesterday and showing huge majorities in every port in favor of accepting the new wage and hour agreements, the costly, 97 day old shipping strike is at last over. It has been estimated that the strike cost over $7,000,000 a day, in losses to both employers and employees, and the loss to the general public, not only of the Coast cities, but all over the country, is inestimable...