Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idlewild's first day, only one airplane-a single-motored, four-seated Stinson-landed on the field. Traffic remained slow; in three days the port grossed a total of $13.53 from aircraft operations. One reason for the lack of planes was a squabble over fees between the major U.S. airlines and the Port of New York Authority, which runs Idlewild and the two other major fields (La Guardia and Newark Airports) in the New York area...
...Salonika police claim an enviable record: since 1936, they say, not a single murder in that Greek port has gone unsolved. Six weeks ago, the body of 34-year-old CBS Correspondent George Polk was found floating in Salonika Bay, his hands & feet tied together, a bullet in his head (TIME, May 24). But by last week the police had made no arrests...
There is no visible place in TIME'S picture of New York for wholesome American living or normal American people . . . The article passes over New York's true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
HERBERT A. PLUMMER Port Arthur...
Eyeing this never-ending struggle to make the jammed, misshapen city run, many of its critics wondered if it were an outmoded mechanism-or an incurable growth. It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences-its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe. All had declined in importance. Was New York going downhill? To Bill O'Dwyer-and to millions of his fellow citizens-the mere suggestion would be blasphemy...