Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laredo has begun to rival it for Mexican trade, is counting on a boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace...
...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...
...Poland's adolescent merchant marine, the motorship Batory last week slipped into New York Harbor, five days before Britain's giant Queen Mary (see p. 17). From Poland's struggling new port of Gdynia on the Baltic to New York, the crack 16,000-ton Batory had made a record run of seven days, 17 hours running time, was met by a prepared demonstration of proud Polish nationalism...
...mountains astride an old mare with two huge saddlebags stuffed with red, white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children. His second campaign, in 1924, for lieutenant governor, he lost by taking a trip around the world, sending his constituents political postcards from such places as Port Said, Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe. In 1932 he had his first major political success when, as a Wet, he waged a timely campaign against wealthy Senator Cameron Morrison. Bob Reynolds had stumped the State in an old Ford for six months, staged a surprising act in many a hillbilly town. Appearing...
...under Sir William Beveridge, who had the same sort of job during the War. "We are," declared the Defense Coordinator, "rapidly solving the all-important question of food in war time so as to have abundant stores in case of another emergency like the submarine blockade of 1917." Ports. The Port of London Authority, busiest in the world, announced a $60,000,000 program of harbor improvements on the lower Thames...