Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review at Portland the Home Fleet, just back from "threatening" Italy in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert on which King George and Queen Mary always put to sea to review the fleet was slept in by King Edward, tied to the dock at Portland. Rousingly cheered, His Majesty cried genially, "The last time I was at Portland, I was a midshipman!", proceeded to inspect the fleet from a fast admiral's barge...
...first time in many a moon, the Admirals from Maryland tack their skiffs up the Charles and dock at Weld. In the Stadium, the gobs will fire broad-sides of TNT at the Harvard defence, and after the game, Harvard look to your laurals. Uniforms have a peculiar effect upon women. The Best Bets of the week according to Lloyd's are: Harvard, Princeton and the following top notch dine and dance spots...
Shrouding his movements in complete secrecy President Conant was last night assumed to be on his way to Cambridge. Neither the publicity office nor his secretary had heard from him before leaving University Hall yesterday afternoon, although the Queen Mary, on which he was to arrive, was scheduled to dock at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning...
With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
Last week the longshoremen offered to continue under the 1934 agreement until a new one was reached. The shipowners refused, announced that after Sept. 30 they would raise dock wages from 95? to $1 an hour, lengthen the working day from six to eight hours and temporarily abandon the use of hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf...