Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last spring arose a suspicion that two dry-voting Congressmen-Michaelson of Illinois and Morgan of Ohio-had brought liquor-laden baggage through the customs by official "courtesy of the port" (TIME, April 8). The two Representatives were cleared, but the Treasury Department felt that the "courtesy" privilege offered too temptatious an opportunity to homecoming Congressmen. A decree was issued abolishing both the "free entry" allowed Congressmen traveling on official business, and the "immediate attention" accorded to those returning from unofficial foreign sojourn...
...which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money in the call market), Port Alfred Pulp and Paper Corp. (owners of the town of Port Alfred), Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. (specializing in kraft [wax] wrapping paper...
...Youth of the poet. School of Port-Royal. Stay at Uzes. First essays...
...crisis of the soul. La revanche de Port-Royal. Letters from Racine...
...flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck the wheelhouse rail. After the volley the Coast Guard boat hailed: "What ship is that...