Word: porto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...
...Buenos Aires?unless the Aviation Corp. of the Americas, which owns Pan American, buys control of NYRBA and so ends U. S. competition in the region. Another watcher of the fray is a little known U. S. concern, Paris American Airways, which competes with Pan American from Porto Rico to Trinidad, crossing en route Guadeloupe and Martinique. Another observer is the Colonial government of the Bahamas. Governor Charles William James Orr from his hill-cresting House at Nassau sees with no equanimity Pan American planes carrying mail, passengers and express between Nassau and Miami, and from Miami dominating the whole...
...Passed a bill granting an additional $1,000,000 for Porto Rican hurricane relief...
...William Mellon, had not had a good night's sleep for a week before the Borah blast. It was not the problems of Prohibition that kept him awake, however, but rough seas in the Bahamas whither he had cruised aboard the yacht Vagabondia. Putting in to San Juan, Porto Rico, Secretary Mellon got some rest at a hotel...