Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urge the Government: 1) to take action for the quick recovery of Dairen and Port Arthur; 2) to petition U.N. for the return of Russian loot from Manchuria; and 3) to declare null & void the Sino-Soviet treaty...
...Yugoslavs waiting to board the Radnik are from Vancouver, Windsor, Toronto, Port Colborne, Brantford and London. Many are men who left their families behind them in Yugoslavia before the war. Others are oldsters pining for their native land. Most came to Canada as adults; they have had difficulty learning English, continue to feel like strangers. Some are politically conscious Communists. Many are not. But none of the emigrants believes that Tito's regime can be more tyrannical than the Karageorgevitch dynasty whose oppression they fled...
Besides the bettered conditions, another change from wartime travel will be in the matter of rates, which range from $117 to $200 each way depending on class of accommodation and port of destination. English and French ports will be visited on each trip, while two or three sailings will stop at Oslo...
Needed: A Jewell. All this bustle was comparatively new to New Orleans which, despite its natural advantages, had languished after the Civil War. Up-&-coming ports like Houston snatched the title of No. i cotton shipper and took the business away. New Orleans shippers talked about snatching it back, but nothing much came of the talk until Governor Sam Jones in 1940 appointed a chunky cotton merchant named Edward Oswald ("Archie") Jewell to boss the Board of Port Commissioners (the "dock board''), which operates the 7½ miles of publicly owned quays and warehouses...
...Orleans is to be the port of their dreams, something must be done about the treacherous, 110-mile channel from the port to the Gulf. New Orleans would like Congress to appropriate $82 million to build a 62½-mile tidewater ship canal from New Orleans straight east to the Gulf. Such a canal would be free from silt and cheap to maintain. If "U.S. engineers approve, it will be up to Congress...