Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they usually did, the 22 Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both...
...Washington was not the only vessel which could not sail. Only 139 ships were loading or unloading cargo at New York's miles of docks. But there was a total of 567 ships in the port (v. a wartime peak of 486). Another 101 ships were anchored in the Hudson River as far north as Tarrytown...
...other obstacles, the biggest was still Trieste. The Italians and Yugoslavs both swore they would sign no treaty that did not give them this key port at the head of the Adriatic. Byrnes and Bevin switched their proposed boundaries in this area to a line (suggested by France) which gave Yugoslavia roughly 2,000 sq. miles but left Trieste to Italy. Molotov did not budge an inch from his line, which would put 500,000 Italians in Yugoslavia...
...before Surits walked down his Rio gangplank, three Brazilian destroyers had steamed 200 miles southward to strikebound, Communist-controlled Santos, the world's largest coffee port, and landed 227 marines. Abashed by armed force and the jailing of their Communist leaders, the striking bagrinhos (dockwork-ers-literally, "shadfish") promised not to do it again. Minister of Labor Octacilio Negrão de Lima rushed into town, reiterated the Government's conveniently forgotten pledge to replace airless, lightless dockside tenements with modern housing. The workers accepted his offer of a 54% pay hike...
...dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat to Europe. So far, the money has been largely a waste...