Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
After a week's delay due to an unexpected cold snap, Weld boat house opened for the spring season at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Regular hours will be from 10 to 6 o'clock, with the limit for leaving the dock...
...from landlubbers to experts have the benefit of coaching, even though the beginner is put in a machine on the dock to catch his first crabs...
...Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size in a rapid, reliable manner, even more useful on pedestrians than on hostile pilots, practical in disposing of Spanish natives. GEORGE DOCK...
...Extradite Trotsky!" Old Bolsheviks taken from the prisoners' dock last week to Ogpu subterranean cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry, after his super-sabotage confession, leaves Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze Commisar for Heavy Industry, vindicated in the Soviet press for Heavy Industry's having fallen behind the Five-Year Plan. Other confessions and executions of the week vindicated virtually all Russia's thousands...