Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusals to attend fire drills, to keep sufficient steam up after reprimands for not standing watch. It appeared that a crew had refused to sail until a prisoner in jail ashore was released. One story was that fire-hose had been found mangled by axes after the ship left port. When these tales reached the Press, ship owners bitterly assailed what they considered premature publicity, declared a "sabotage scare" was being built out of nothing. They had asked for no help in straightening things out, had given Chief Weaver information, at his request, which they thought he would keep private...
...West Virginia mines were acquired. To keep the mines operating efficiently, coal was marketed directly without coking it. To carry the coal to tidewater plants, Eastern Gas & Fuel went into shipping, now owns two freighters, 16 colliers, accounts for nearly one-fourth of the domestic coastwise receipts at the Port of Boston. To nudge its ships into Boston slips, it got into tugboats, now supplies a large part of the towing service in Boston harbor...
...advertising manager, Morgan's fitted out Captain William Andrews, a onetime piano-maker, with $50 and groceries, blessed the captain's departure from Atlantic City for Palos, Spain, in a 14½-ft. sloop called the Sapolio. When Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
...President drove 50 miles to Titusville, entrained for the South. At Port Everglades he marched up the gangplank of the Monaghan, put out to sea where his yacht awaited...
...free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face...