Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruise will sail from Boston August 27 on the battleship Arkausas. The students from Georgia Tech and Northwestern will sail two days later from Hampton Roads on the same boat. The ship will then travel to West Indian waters and after a stay of four days in some port will return to Boston on September...
Consul-General? Year ago Alden Freeman, 69, wealthy & eccentric Florida philanthropist and globetrotter, announced that thereafter he would travel only by air. Last week he set out in a Moth biplane from Kingston, Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to visit his good friend Lieut. Faustin E. Wirkus of the Garde D'Haiti and U. S. Marines (TIME, Jan. 26). The plane was forced down midway, floated for six hours until Globe-trotter Freeman and his pilot were picked up by a steamer...
...people "at least $980,000,000 a year." Senator Tydings probably also had in mind the fact that when an experimental shipment of Soviet oil was lately made to the U. S. it arrived in Maryland's Baltimore, that Baltimore may hope to become a big oil port...
Despite several days of storm and blizzard that had stopped trains, sent ships to port, at Bardonecchia (some eight miles from the French border) three companies of Alpine troops with jaunty eagle feathers in their hats and skis slung over their shoulders marched out of barracks for a practice ascent of Monte Galambra. Snowfall was so heavy that two companies turned back. The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit. Halfway down they were forced to take shelter in a rest house, were marooned there nearly 36 hours without food...
Last year King Wirkus I was transferred back to Port-au-Prince. In March he will return to the U. S., to be discharged from the service. Now 35, shrewd, reticent, he will be adopted by a wealthy man in Florida. Soon to be published is his book The White King. From Haiti he will bring with him cinema films of Voodoo cere monies, wild tribal dances, mystic sexual rites which his friends fear no censor will pass...