Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...I.L.A. backing the cannery strike, shut down the entire port of Stockton. Dave Beck swore his teamsters would move the cargo. It did not move, however, even by rail, for warehousemen refused to help load...
...Before tackling the 900-page transcript of Texas and Florida testimony, Surrogate Harry E. Owen of Essex County. N. Y. called for a resumption of probate hearings. More convenient for all concerned with these memorable hearings than Surrogate Owen's little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry was a comfortable green-tinted trial room in Manhattan's Bar Building...
Without imagination Syracuse is a dull port city with a museum, a Bar maid, 500 donkeys, 70,000 inhabitants and a cinema where Rudolph Valentino plays one week and Bambino Shirley Temple the next. But this is not the Syracuse you will love...
...their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put out to sea again, officially to return to Britain. All the other Joneses wagered he would make one more attempt to get through to Bilbao...
...with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries...