Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize the effect of such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal. Main fighting last week was near Lake Bor, which Japanese say is 18 miles inside the Manchu Empire and irate Mongols...
...Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course down to the Gulf at Port Inglis. Total length of the canal: 200 miles, including the sea approaches, twice that of Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida...
...trouble was that no sooner had Lieut. Colonel Somervell told Florida what was going to happen than northern Florida began to rejoice and southern Florida to complain. Tampa growled because it feared it would lose its pre-eminence as Florida's west coast port, but Tampa's growls were hardly heard in the louder protests of fruit and vegetable growers south of the canal route...
That evening Franklin Roosevelt was 54 and the Gang, including White House Secretaries Marvin Mclntyre and Stephen Early, Thomas Lynch, Appraiser of the Port of New York, Stanley Prenosil, a Manhattan businessman and Kirke Simpson of the Associated Press, held private revel in the White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...
...jury decided otherwise after hearing that; 1) The Morro Castle was not thoroughly inspected in port because she did not stay long enough. 2) Fire drills were rarely held, never thoroughly. 3) Fire-fighting equipment was in such poor shape as to be virtually useless. 4) Mr. Cabaud knew the regulations were not complied with, ignored them in order to keep the liner busy. 5) Captain Warms had no command over his crew, which was completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled...