Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastern terminus of International Railways, best port in Guatemala and shipping point for most of United Fruit's Guatemalan bananas, is Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean. In 1927 a United Fruit subsidiary got a concession from the government allowing it to build new ports on the Caribbean and the Pacific. For International Railways a new port on the Gulf of Amatique, competing with Puerto Barrios, would be a serious matter, for in the past few years United Fruit has shipped more and more bananas overland from the Pacific Coast to Puerto Barrios on the International. Thus, bananas reach...
...impression on Argentine authorities who affirmed at Buenos Aires that the President of Spain, corpulent regular Republican Manuel Azaña was about to seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued...
...temporarily abandon the use of hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf, and the Atlantic will be tied...
Died. Frank C. Munson, 60, president since 1926 of Munson Steamship Line; of injuries received when his automobile crashed; in Port Chester...
...Conte di Savoia dropped anchor and ravening reporters in their cutter drew along the starboard side, away from the port side slipped the 75-foot Long Island commuter yacht Nepenthe carrying the Duchess of Toledo and personal maid. The 1,000 h. p. engines of the commuter were just turning over but ready to open up with a roar should reporters give chase. Thus neatly great Victoria's granddaughter slipped away, with the U. S. State Department honoring her Queen's prerogative to travel without a passport, and the U. S. Treasury Department speeding through the Customs...