Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week, the S. S. President Jefferson tied up in Manila harbor and 376 refugees, evacuated from Shanghai three days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen in prose, twelve Margaret Bourke-White photographs of that pride of the U. S. seas, the old S. S. Leviathan, lying rust-bleared and indecent at a Hoboken dock...
...Branded by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as "inexcusable" last week was a recent wildcat sit-down of 43 unionists in Allegheny Steel Co.'s Brackenridge. (Pa.) plant. Jealous of its record as a responsible party to labor contracts, S. W. O. C. promptly recommended that the company dock the wildcatters a week...
...Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
...following were not easy years for Harry Bridges. Twice he was hurt in dock accidents. As early as 1924 he tried to organize his fellow workers but someone embezzled the union's funds. Though always bucking company unions, he nevertheless managed to find work until 1932, when he had to go on local relief for a short time. During the 1934 strike when he was turning back his union salary, he was on Fed- eral relief for about six weeks...