Word: seaport
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...Editor Gauvreau hired a vaudeville hoofer named Walter Winchell, "a prodigy who, by some form of self-hypnosis, came to feel himself the center of his time." Gauvreau hoots at Winchell's illiteracy (he called Zola a famed woman writer, described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told...
...adventures on the road to glory (see p. 23). The Chinese nevertheless thought the achievement brilliant. It was the first time since the Japanese had sealed the south China coast almost airtight last spring (TIME, May 5) that the Chinese had fought their way into possession of a major seaport...
...fall victim to depression-the 2,409-mile Wabash, in the courts since 1931 (the Seaboard has been in since 1930). The Wabash, known as "the road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere," has defaulted four times in 66 years, spent 22 of them in receivership. It lacks seaport and gateway terminals, depends on other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis. The Wabash was therefore one of the biggest chips in the great consolidation poker game played...
...Biblical renown, sister city of Tyre, the other great Phoenician seaport...
...south. Shanghai reported that Japan was already withdrawing troops from inner China toward the seacoast. Shanghai prophets predicted that Japan would concentrate its forces in North China and along a southward line following the rail way from Nanking to Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton - thus controlling China's great seaport sources of trade and revenue...