Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...association work the harbor tugs and tow boats. They demanded a raise from 56.7 to 80? per hour for masters and from 37 to 65? for mates. Ship owners declared that, in many cases, as long as fair weather prevailed, they could get their ships in and out of port without tugs...
...sold, nearly two years ago, to the Dollar Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...
Until last January, there had been no rain at the little cable port of Santa Elena since 1919. Marshes about the village had long been withered dry. Cattle, unfoddered for months, were shambling bags of bones, the sheep and goats desperately gnawed bales of paper ticker-tape thrown out by the telegraph company...
...long cruise and no port...
...seawater, about a pound of the heavy brown liquid to 1,700 gallons of ocean. Some Manhattan oil men have remembered this, have developed a new extraction process, fitted out a floating factory, the Ethyl, which sails next week from Wilmington, Del, for a long cruise and no port...