Word: porting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships may carry any goods but arms to any port in the Western Hemisphere south and west of an imaginary fence set around the North Atlantic Ocean; and anywhere in the other world waters. The President may declare any region a combat area-which would automatically ban U. S. citizens, ships, planes from trespassing in that area. Minor provisions bar alien seamen from U. S. entry, mounted arms on U. S. merchant vessels, use of the U. S. flag by foreign ships. Penalties for major infractions: $50,000 fine, five years in jail or both; for minor $10,000 fine...
When a belligerent seizes a neutral ship, it usually runs the neutral into its own port, seizes its contraband cargo, and if more than 50% is contraband, condemns the ship. The neutral protests with as much vehemence as is compatible with the strength of its case. It may try to gain the ship's release, lay the basis for claims for damages after the war. If the belligerent captor, hard-pressed by enemy raiders, sinks the neutral vessel, procedure is for the crew and ship's papers to be taken off, the crew for the sake of humanity...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The captured American freighter City of Flint, in command of a Nezi prize crew, tonight was reported racing at full speed through Great Britain's naval blockade off the southern coast of Norway in an attempt to reach a German port...
After a 600-mile ride by truck from Warsaw to the southeasternmost corner of what was Poland and after surviving a German bombing raid there; after traveling by specially chartered Rumanian train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa, and after evading a German order for internment there; after aimlessly riding the eastern Mediterranean in a Turkish boat for a week; after a brief stop in Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value...
Aged (81), eccentric New York Lawyer Samuel Untermyer had the gardener on his Yonkers estate rig up an ingenious apparatus to infuse his honeydew and casaba melons with benedictine, port, and brandy while they are still on the hot-house vine, hopes to sample the non-intoxicating but liquor-flavored fruit next month...