Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Casado. 3,000 inhabitants. A railroad connects the forest with the port. The estimated capital invested in Puerto Casado exceeds six million gold pesos. In the estancias there are 80,000 head of cattle...
Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...
...Italian soldiers and workers have been sent down to a steaming sun-baked port where there is hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
Yachtsmen surmised that Stoertebeker, sighted once before and sailing east on the 40th parallel, was by last week about 600 miles behind the leaders who should reach port this week but who, because of handicaps, may not win the race...
...steamer for Haifa sailed from Brindisi and, as one car raced across France toward the port, the other was smashed by a truck in Lyon. The cars became separated, the drivers got lost, then forgot where they had agreed to meet. But the whole party caught the boat at the last moment and the two cars were hoisted aboard...