Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river was down. Cotton was up (26.9? a lb.) and so was the city's population (approx. 375,000). Memphis was the world's greatest cotton market, the hub of ten railroads, three airlines, and a big and busy river port. It had boomed during the war, and it was booming still. Better yet, it was running just the way Edward Hull Crump-the most absolute political boss in the U.S.-wanted...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
...good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side of the mountain and fill the shallow harbor of Hilo, 23 miles away. If that should happen, the island of Hawaii, southernmost and largest of the Hawaiian group, would lose its last good port...
...coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already in the field...
Next morning, in sultry Salina Cruz on the Pacific, local delegations visited Aleman. Labor wanted the port reconditioned; salt producers, more electrification ; the peasants' league, irrigation and roads. To all of them he said he hopes, as President, to do something about such problems. Said Candidate Aleman to U.S. correspondents with him: "I invite you to come back to this region with me three years from now so that you can see ... how the country has developed...