Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale...
...five years conditions in Liberia have been salt in the wounds of the State Department. The British objected that the rats in Monrovia were so bad that bubonic plague was prevented from spreading through West Africa only by the fact that it had no harbor in which ships could dock; that a smallpox epidemic ravaged the interior; that the simplest health measures were unknown and Liberia might become a focus of infection for all Africa. This the U. S. State Department could believe. In 1929 U. S. Minister William Treyanne Francis died there of yellow fever...
...Manhattan, reporters gathered on a dock to meet a tall, grey-haired young woman who, if she had been in the field at Newcastle, would certainly have won the tournament. She was Joyce Wethered, greatest woman golfer in the world, arriving to play a series of exhibition matches to exploit Wanamaker's golf supplies. At the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days...
Already in the harbor was the Brazilian transport Siqueira with 600 army and navy cadets aboard, and Brazil's pride, the brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white...
...Export Association issued a booklet giving a startling answer-Imports. This conclusion was based on findings indicating that the average cost of imported goods landed in the U. S. represents only 30% of their ultimate retail value. The other 70% is spent in the U. S. for customs duties, dock labor, drayage, freight, advertising, and the services of wholesaler and retailer. Even excluding duties, more than one-half the retail price of imported goods is absorbed in moving them from customs house to consumer...