Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiery. By the first of September there were already shiploads of wounded being sent back to Japan in almost every ship that called at Shanghai. When the Nagaski Maru docked at Kobe on September 8, the wounded soldiers carried in the hold of the ship were shifted to the port side for unloading. There was such a number of them that the shift caused the ship to list heavily to port. These men were loaded secretly at Shanghai; when they were carried off the vessel at Kobe, the passengers were forced to go to the other side of the ship...
Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post-War world than free-lance journalism, is last seen heading for the U. S., on the apparent principle of any port in a storm. Dubiously optimistic last line is supplied by a farewell telegram from the woman Julian has lately left, informing him that she is to bear his child, heir to the civilization Europe has squandered: "He lives who will...
...West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only a handful of warehousemen signed up, flatly refused. "This," cried he, "is a showdown fight. We'll close every port on the Pacific Coast where warehousemen are not teamsters," "These gentlemen," rasped Longshoreman Bridges, "not only want a labor war but demand...
...next most important landing-Floyd Bennett Field off the tip of Brooklyn. Smoother than Newark, superior in equipment and less hazardous to approach, its commercial activities are confined to a single regular passenger service-one American Airliner a day to Boston-taxi services and private flying. Third field is Port Washington, a temporary base for German and British flying boats and Bermuda Clippers. The 20-mile journey from Grand Central takes just under an hour. The great runways at Mitchell Field and the smaller ones at Miller Field, Staten Island are used by the Army; Roosevelt Field is largely taxi...