Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zealand the U. S. fleet, landing at Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Port Lyttelton (Christ Church) in four divisions, paraded, was feted and feted again, gave entertainments in turn. It was the same story of gaiety as in the Australian ports (TiME...
...incident broke the monotony of enthusiasm. At Christ Church a num- ber of larrikins (hoodlums) shouted: "Who won the War?" at the gobs. A fight might have ensued, but a shore patrol happened along and arrested a number of their brother gobs. Shore leave at Port Lyttelton was cancelled for a day, but the New Zealand press disowned the larrikins and festivities were soon resumed...
...divisions at Melbourne and Sydney (TIME, Aug. 3, 10) closed their visits by giving balls. The enthusiasm and goodwill of the populace was evident from the fact that one battleship had been designated at each port as the scene of a reception and a ball, but at Melbourne alone it was necessary to use three battleships to accommodate the crowd...
...Civita Vecchia, 38 miles from Rome, the naval school ship Annapolis, with 60 midshipmen, came to port carrying the American visitation to the opposite side of the globe...
...three boats contained more rubber than the entire port stocks in London, which amounted to only 3,987 tons. For June, imports of rubber into the U. S. amounted altogether to 31,175 tons of crude...