Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's Tourist Board, who missed 14 meetings at which he was to speak on the joys of travel on British ships. The undamaged Mauretania (she is due in New York this week) was finally docked-on the same day that the old (33 years) Aquitania made port with 22 injured and 1,100 more or less battered passengers...
...less than those whose homes gird the salt seas," said the Montreal Gazette last week. A thousand miles from the sea, Montreal is at the end of Canada's ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest ocean port of any size to central Canada and to the U.S. Midwest...
...morning sun shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
...slips were parking tags from the nearby Port Arthur police department, and bore the sentence: "You have violated a traffic...
...down the quayside, as unloading began, huge cranes bit into the piles of U.S. goods flowing into Argentina. So great was the jam of U.S. crates that port authorities last week ordered freighters following the Mormacwave to lie in the roadstead till the docks were partly cleared...