Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calliope shrieked; the twelve-piece band blared; the popcorn vendors hawked their wares. On stage, the actors hammed their way through Ten Nights in a Barroom. It was melodrama at its drammiest that was being performed in an Ohio river port last week. And that was just the way the professor wanted it. Professor Harry Wright of Ohio's Kent State University had gone to a lot of trouble to get the right atmosphere...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
Airports. The Port of New York Authority bought New Jersey's 500-acre, ten-hangar Teterboro Air Terminal. This closed the last escape hatch for airlines that objected to the Authority's landing fees at Idlewild and hoped to take off on transatlantic flights from Teterboro (TIME, July 12). Price: $3,115,000. Teterboro's owner, Frederick L. Wehran, got the property...
Next stop was the Chinese port of Chinwangtao, where the Marine Flier paused to unload 2,500 tons of girdles ("the engine-room bell was clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...
...night Elsa threw a slumming party in Antibes (Darryl Zanuck and Rita were along), ordered dinner at the popular bistro Félix au Port. The table was on the sidewalk, and almost at once a crowd gathered. When it turned out that they were not autograph hunters but merely folk grumbling at the sight of a lavish dinner, the party moved inside...