Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This notably appeared at Mocha, Red Sea port of the Arabian land of Yemen. Its ruler, the Imam, has been pressed by Italy for weeks to permit Mocha to be used as a port for hospitalization and convalescence of Italian soldiers stricken with tropical diseases in Eritrea. Last week an Italian Naval flotilla sailed into Mocha to exert further pressure, whereat the Imam, wasting no time in appeals to Geneva, begged directly for British help. In a few hours British war boats from Aden raced into Mocha, overawed the Italian flotilla which withdrew. The British returned to Aden. Two days...
...York one day last week churned the colossal French Liner Normandie on the second half of her seventh round-trip transatlantic voyage. Four days, one hour later, she churned past Plymouth England, in heavy seas which prevented her from calling at that port but did not prevent her from setting a new record for the crossing, some six hours better than her previous time. Heading on to Havre Commandant Rene Pugnet and his crew were prouder than ever of holding the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic in fact, if not on shipboard. Still secure in Italian hands is the actual...
Japanese businessmen's naive delight over an Occidental War was perfectly natural. The World War was, to Japan alone among major belligerents, just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from...
...publication Reader's Digest has sold more than 1,500,000 reprints of the Furnas article. Magazines, newspapers, the radio have quoted it. Judges have read it aloud to traffic offenders, made them write it longhand or recite it. Wyoming sends it with every set of license plates. The Port of New York Authority gives it to all motorists using the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge. Copies of it accompany all official correspondence of the Province of Ontario...
...only one degree removed from armaments, promises to embroil the United States in foreign conflicts almost as easily as if there were no embargo at all. In case of a blockade it is important to the blockaders that metals, textiles, and foodstuffs be kept from the closed port as machine guns and explosives themselves...