Word: porting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston or Gloucester, makes more furniture than Grand Rapids, assembles more automobiles than any other city but Detroit, makes more tires than any other city but Akron. It is a garment center (bathing suits, slacks, sports togs) second only to New York. It makes steel in its backyard. Its port handles more tonnage than San Francisco...
...Last week some visitors were crossing Cabot Strait, 100 miles by ferry to Port aux Basques, where they took the 547-mile-long narrow-gauge railway to the capital city of St. John's (pop. 56,000). Others flew to Gander Airport. Still others sailed through the narrow channel that leads to St. John's landlocked harbor...
...Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked...
They are Grace Anthony of Malden; Joan Capeel of Port Chester, N. Y.; Antonia Handler Chayes of New York City; Mary Davis of Suffolk County, L. I. N. Y.; Alice Gilbert of New York City; Alice Gossard of Wollaston; Muriel Kaplan of Chelsea; Jennifer Seltridge of Red Bank, N. J.; Raya Speigel of New York City; Irene Tinker of Wilmington, Del.; and Naney Woodman of Wellesley...
...denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight months under the Displaced Persons...