Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
...Queen Victoria's time Southampton began to put out its claw in earnest. Dredges deepened the harbor. In 1892 the then London & South Western Railway took over the docks, so that by 1914 Southampton was No. 1 port of embarkation for Britain's armies. Last week Southamptonites, now eager for the title of world's No. 1 port, felt they were getting somewhere when King George came to open what Britain claims to be the world's biggest dry dock (1,200 ft. long by 135 ft. wide at the entrance...
...liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will...
When Col. Lindbergh points his Lockheed over Greenland's inland ice; when he takes the heavier, slower Fairchild, gets a radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge...
...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...