Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South China's great port, Canton, was furiously bombed by Japanese airmen who, however, held off last week until a train bearing 167 U. S. citizens from the interior had chuffed through Canton safely, bound for Hong Kong. Some $10,000 worth of bandages and medicinal supplies, just landed at Canton by the American Red Cross, were set afire and destroyed by the bombs...
...route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing only with itself...
...diverted cruises to South America, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In this winter of f lourishing cruise business most of the world's greatest liners-including the Rex, Berengaria, Empress of Britain, Paris, Normandie-will sail from the world's greatest cruise port, carrying an estimated 57,000 passengers to seas afar at an estimated $350 a head...
...pickets continued to march. Dave Beck's teamsters refuse to handle lumber from C.I.O. mills. Harry Bridges' longshoremen will not load products of plants still A. F. of L. Indeed, fortnight ago Mr. Bridges had to hasten to Portland to avert the closing of the entire port. One lumber company was being picketed by both sides at once, by C.I.O. because of alleged violation of seniority rights, by A. F. of L. because the mill was C.I.O...
Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...