Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific coast as a whole the vote was 6,378 for arbitration, 1,471 against. In San Francisco where the vote was closer than in any other big port, arbitration won 2,014 to 722. With a more than 4-to-1 mandate from the stevedores, the Archbishop and his confreres settled down to decide who should control the hiring halls, the union or the shipowners. For the time being the hiring halls were left in the shipowners' hands under government supervision and the longshoremen voted to go back to work...
...Flush with a $37,500,000 PWA loan, the Port of New York Authority is hard at work on a second vehicular tube to New Jersey, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
...fortnight past Seattle and Portland shipping men had loaded and unloaded a handful of ships at a couple of docks under the menacing eyes of resentful strikers. In their ports close to 75 ocean ships lay helpless. At Los Angeles' well-defended port, shippers were masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted...
...Francisco's Industrial Association had warned that it would open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads...
...pried into the clear green waters with their long poles, brought up $375,000 worth of fine sponges each year. Shrimp fisheries boomed. And when Henry Morrison Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway on stilts across the coral keys in 1912, Key West was an important U. S. port handling cargoes that increased to $65,000,000 yearly...