Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Half Moon sailed 143 miles up from the sea to its site, Albany has had a maritime history. In 1686, when it received the charter which today makes it the oldest incorporated city in the U. S., the little Dutch fur trading post already was a prominent port...
...agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent $7,000,000 building a modern waterfront. In 1932, with great ceremony, the Port of Albany was opened to the world...
Nonetheless, Albany was not content. It clamored to the Interstate Commerce Commission that high railroad freight rates put it at a disadvantage in competing with the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Last week, over railroad protests, the I. C. C. recognized Albany as an Atlantic port, ordered the roads to allow Albany the lower rates to the western trunk lines applicable to seaborne goods landed at other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from...
Last summer Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurated a 1,000-mile airline up the rugged coast of Norway to Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world (TIME, June 8). Last week, two Sikorsky 543 amphibians left Connecticut to fly to South America to inaugurate a 1,000-mile airline down the rugged coast of Chile to Magallenes, southernmost port in the world...
...best paper in town." In Seattle, he will find himself in one of the most colorful cities of the U. S. Settled in 1851, a railhead by 1883, headed for civic greatness with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl), Seattle still produces characters like the late eccentric Congressman Marion Zioncheck...