Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
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...
...days ago both here and in Europe that I am preparing to exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church, here in North Carolina, in order to solve this 90-year-old mystery, my associates and I have received letters from Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all parts of the U. S., and among those writing was a son of a former President of the United States, a U. S. Senator, several college presidents and prominent authors as well as historians. Just thought you would be interested in knowing the type of people...
...nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony Marino, to stop after the 13th round, when both his eyes were cut so badly that he could...
Profoundly grieved, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico journeyed from San Juan to the summer palace at Jajome Alto to bury his favorite Labrador, Black Jack...