Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable for its thriving U. S. Navy Yard and for its mayor, who rivals his State's late Congressman Marion Anthony Zioncheck as a wagging political cap-&-bells. When bespectacled little Tailor Jesse A. Knabb lost a mayoralty election in 1933, he jumped off a Bremerton dock before a battery of newsreel cameras. When he won the next one in 1936, his behavior became even stranger. Up to last week eccentric Mayor Knabb had made news...
...Dock workers, earning 16? to 18? an hour, asked 25?. Bus drivers, earning $5 and $7.50 a week, asked $10. Bus conductors, earning $2 and $3 a week, struck for $6.25. Street cleaners with top salaries of $5.22, asked...
...small basin, fenced off from the harbor by the breakwater. Within the basin lay a cluster of boats, launched even earlier than his own. On one a group of riggers was working; the mast had been set in from a high derrick on the dock and now one deck-hand was perched in the spreaders trying to un foul a tangle of lines, looking like a bird in a wintry tree. Soon his won craft--that little white creature nestling in the cradle on the shore--would slip down the rails that led into the water and slide over...
...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
...large cases of "foodstuffs" broke open, and out rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur, France, an overloaded winch, lifting huge cases out of a steamer flying the flag of Panama which had arrived with "agricultural machinery" for Leftist Spain, broke down. This accident smashed against the side of the dock cases which broke open, spilled out six-inch gun carriages and a submachine...