Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...
Three months after its dedication Gilbert Gable's dock collapsed in a storm. Since then a temporary pier has been built, Port Orford has grown to 1,000 in population and Gilbert Gable has become mayor. But no construction of the railroad has been started. Tired of waiting, local tycoons got behind a rival scheme. Five months ago, before an ICC examiner, this new group declared that it had funds to build a $7,000,000 line from Grants Pass, 15 miles south of Leland on the Southern Pacific, across the coastal range to Crescent City, 97 miles south...
Clustered miserably in the prisoner's dock day after day were four men who, according to the Crown, had been caught red-handed by Miss X. All were once-trusted employes at Woolwich, the chief British arsenal: Albert Williams, armament examiner; George Whomack, assistant foreman of the gun section; C. W. Munday, assistant chemist; and P. E. Glading, only a minor employe at Woolwich, but featured as an important Communist...
...party of Communist cameramen swept into court with batteries of klieg lights for the kill. Movie cameras recorded that Communist Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Nikolai Lenin as Soviet Premier (1924), wept in the dock of 21 prisoners as he awaited death, while the great Communist ideologist and "Heir of Lenin," Nikolai Bukharin, onetime editor of official Izvestia, stared dry-eyed at the floor. The, 21 did not know that, so far as could be ascertained last week, the only daily or weekly papers in the world whose editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively...
...recent film British Actress Grade Fields, who makes a reputed $750,000 a year, sang "You've Got to Smile When You Say Goodby" from the top deck of a departing liner. Recently, as her father and mother sailed from Southampton on the Berengaria, Gracie standing on the dock suddenly burst into "You've Got to Smile When You Say Good-by." The astonished crowd around her, liking Gracie much more than they did the proprieties, clamored for an encore. Gracie obliged: "Little Old Lady," for her mother...