Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bassador Joseph P. Kennedy. To win the Democratic primary in Massachusetts' 11th District, which has rarely sent a Republican to Congress, ex-P-T boat-commander Kennedy made 450 speeches, plumped first for international issues, then switched to such local matters as the restoration of Boston's port and the encouragement of New England industries...
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov insisted for two and one half hours that the governor's authority to maintain law and order in the strategic port--to be inter-Balionalized by council order--should be subordinate to a council of government which would be appointed by the proposed elective assembly...
...arts prospered. Sweltering Maracaibo, the oil port, was about to get its own orchestra. A campaign against illiteracy - with matchbooks exhorting DON'T BE ANALPHABETIC!- was in full swing. The Government was distributing good cheap books, and it looked as though the new President of Venezuela's first representative government in generations would be Rómulo Gallegos Freire, a revered old novelist. A nation, most of whose citizens believe that the way to cure a cold is to grow a beard, found itself saying : "We've always had a grand future. Now we have a chance...
Social life was founded on leisure and letters, and on what all agreed was the world's finest rum ($3.75 a gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just...
...Seattle's sprawling Todd Drydocks, workmen this week put the finishing touches on a strange vessel. On its flush deck were a twin-motored seaplane and a radio tower. On port and starboard decks were long rows of machines connected by conveyor belts; in its hold were gleaming, white, airtight compartments...