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Excerpt from Boston Looks Seaward: The Story of the Port, 1630-1940
This Book Is, in effect, a chronicle of the Port of Boston from its beginnings in 1630 to the present day. In it, the Massachusetts WPA Writers'Project has included a wealth of material, which should be of great interest to all those who find New England maritime activity a subject of fascination from both the historical and the immediate points of view.
The Boston Port Authority, sponsor of this publication, believes its appearance in these stirring days to be timely and pertinent. In an era of stress such as this, with the water front and its news in the foreground, the reader will find in this volume such accounts of the Boston Harbor of other days as will cause him to realize that here is a veteran port, no novice to days of emergency, ready to face the future with the proud tradition of an enterprising and glorious history. Nor has discussion of the present Port, its needs, its problems and its accomplishments been neglected. No attempt has been made to draw a veil compounded of past grandeur and "the good old days" over the inherent difficulties facing the Port, in its attempt to improve itself from the rate, traffic and physical angles to the end that it may better serve not only its own immediate constituency but our Commonwealth and our Nation as well. The reader, therefore, will find a full and informed presentation of the modern Port, with attention directed to its advantages and its handicaps in terms of their respective existence. On a basis of broad and painstaking research, the book portrays the Port as it was and as it is.
"Show me your port and I will tell you the future of your city," said an eminent speaker at the 1940 meeting of the American Association of Port Authorities in Los Angeles. If ever a port has experienced the vagaries of fortune, good and bad, it is Boston. Its prosperity or the lack of it has profoundly influenced the economic and cultural life of its surrounding community.
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Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (2015)
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