Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier in Morocco's International Zone. Before he could get his ship away, the port authorities ordered him to reload his perilous consignment and get it out of Tangier in a hurry...
...Belgian barge on the high seas, unloaded TNT and incendiary bombs and then, with only a few innocent planes and machine guns, once more sailed up the Thames and put in at East London's Silvertown. Once more Captain Allen pleaded his case in vain before London port authorities, left for Spain with a cargo of sugar...
...merchant marine in 1930 by buying Denmark's Baltic America Line, renaming it the Gdynia-America Line, consolidating all lines under one central management, subsidized if necessary by the Government. One Polish specialty is taking U. S. Jews by ship to Gdynia, by train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa (Rumania), by Polish ship again to Palestine Three old liners, Kosciuszko, Pulaski and Polonia, have been put on the Constantsa-Haifa and South American routes, leaving the North Atlantic to the Pilsudski and Batory...
...morning last week climbed a trimotored Junkers seaplane. For some 275 miles it buzzed north along the ragged Scandinavian coast to Nidaros (Trondhjem), then on for 300 miles across the Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...
...meanwhile, was rolling slowly down the African Coast. She went aground on Capo Blanco. The crew went ashore for assistance, returned to find thieves had stolen all their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...