Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Streamers of colored paper linked ship and pier, bright specks of confetti dotted the air between waving throngs on the dock and the gay crowd on the liner's deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...
...passengers of the President Jackson were politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant "left behinds" booked on other lines, and at evening the 14,000-ton President Jackson sailed from a deserted dock, demoted, in almost the twinkling of an eye by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, from a liner to a freighter...
Seamen may strike when a ship is docked in a home port. Once the ship has sailed, to strike-or otherwise disobey captain's "lawful orders"-is mutiny. Well within their rights then were the 18 members of the tumultuous crew of the U. S. Government-owned Algic* when they "sat down" in Baltimore on the eve of sailing, lumber-laden, to South America last July. Their supplies on the dock rotted as they lounged on deck awaiting reply to an ultimatum which read...
Also the Weld trustees made a special appropriation of over $6000 for the complete reconstruction of the landing dock at the Weld Boat Club, and the work is practically finished there. Finally a duplicate cable has been laid to provide electrical service to the area north of Kirkland Street, as an additional safety factor. So it has been a busy summer for the University, and students will find upon their return to Cambridge that most of the jobs that have been hanging fire for many years have now been cleaned...
Since Feb. 1 certain ships entering New York Harbor are allowed "radio pratique." This is the privilege of proceeding directly to dock without necessity of anchoring off Quarantine for medical inspection of passengers and crew. All a ship surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus...