Word: seaports
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...years Chicago has longed for a ditch between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi so that she may become a "seaport." Other cities on the Great Lakes have blocked Chicago-sued her, brought injunctions, vilified her-maintaining that to fill such a ditch to a navigable depth would lower the lake levels ruinously. Even Canada has glowered. They have accused Chicago of having lowered the levels ruinously already with her sewage disposal canal and added insult to injury by declaring that Chicago sewage pollutes the entire Great Lakes system (excepting Lake Superior). Lately, with the Chicago-Gulf project pending...
...Fiumicino, a seaport near Rome, he boarded the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour amid an ovation scarcely to be described. As the ship's crew cheered him from the rigging and from every other possible vantage point, he commanded silence with a gesture and proceeded to "introduce" the provincial Fascist secretaries to their directorate...
...knows that the Vatican is somewhat resigned to the confiscation of the Papal States by Italy; would be content if Italy would allot in fee simple, free from secular suzerainty, a narrow strip of land from Rome to the Tiber estuary, so that the Pope could have his own seaport, could travel abroad without touching Italian soil...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
...clock, General Pangalos, head of the Army insurgents, who had established his troops between Athens and the seaport Piraeus, and Admiral Hajikiriakos, leader of the naval insurgents, who had hoisted his flag on board the Averoff off Piraeus, sent ultimata to Admiral Konduriotis, Provisional President of the Hellenic Republic, charging the Government with general inefficiency and claiming that they spoke for the people, which they certainly did not. The two leaders demanded the dismissal of the Government and the surrender of the Treasury, failing which they threatened to bombard the infantry in barracks, the Presidential Palace and the War Office...