Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roaring chant: "We want Truman!" The President quickly obliged. He and Mrs. Truman went out to the columned portico, then down the green lawn to within 25 feet of the shouting thousands behind the iron fence and the row of MPs who brought their bayoneted rifles to port arms...
...Port Arthur it was just an ordinary busy morning. The big, bulging grain elevators (capacity: more than 50,000,000 bu.) were hiring anyone who could and would wield a shovel. More grain ships than ever before were being loaded at the great Lake Superior port...
Inside what was left of the $1,750,000 elevator, rescuers found the human remains. George Crittal, Port Arthur bricklayer, one of the first rescuers to pick his way into the shambles, saw injured men with "white faces, their hands blistered so badly that water was dripping from their fingers and their scorched and hairless heads. . . . Men, both living and dead, were terribly mangled. .... We found one worker pinned under a twisted column. There was a piece of steel reinforcement through his neck. . . . There was another chap [whose legs were] buried under a pile of bricks and debris. ... He told...
...week's end the death toll had mounted to 16 (out of 70 who had been at work in No. 5), with four men still missing and bodies still being found in the wreckage. Another 34, all badly burned, crippled and blinded, were in Port Arthur hospitals...
Borrowing from U.S. financiers, Pros pector La Bine and his prospector-brother Charles built a refinery at Port Hope, Ont., hired scientists to do the technical work, and began producing radium (sale price: $25,000 a gram). It meant little to them that one of the by-products was uranium oxide. Had it not been for World War II, their prosperous Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., Ltd., which netted $280,000 in 1942, might still be producing dividends for shareholders scattered all over the U.S. and Canada...