Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Washington...
Into New York Harbor last week steamed the second biggest whaling ship afloat, the 22,000-ton S. S. Sir James Clark Ross. In her hold was the largest cargo of whale oil ever to enter the port-a 45,000,000-lb. consignment for Procter & Gamble to use in its soaps. Five months in the Antarctic whaling grounds and 1,117 whales were "required to fill the Ross's 120,000 barrels...
...factory ships like the Sir James Clark Ross or the 25,000-ton Kosmos swallow the whale through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...
...Vickers-Armstrongs, served its country splendidly when Manchuria was flaming brightest. It also served China excellently. In 1930 China, the world's largest importer of arms, bought almost 40 percent of its war material from Japan. The European armament makers who were supplying this trade found the free port of Hamburg convenient; during one famous week in 1932 there cleared from Hamburg two ships loaded with dynamite, grenades, and airplane parts; another with 1,000 cases of explosives, another with 1,700 cases of ammunition, and still another, brining up a triumphal rear, with 100,000,000 francs' worth...
Balboa, C. Z., May 27--The U. S. Destroyer Hale returned to port today bearing William A. Robinson, young American explorer, saved by an emergency operation by naval surgeons...