Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan dock one morning last week, the U. S. Lines' passenger ship, American Trader, had her cargo stowed, her gangplank up, all else in readiness to sail with 53 passengers to Europe. Once safely across the Atlantic, the American Trader, under special orders from the U. S. State Department, was to take aboard stranded U.S. citizens, get them home with all speed...
...still at her dock at week's end was the American Trader. Her C.I.O. crew suddenly struck for a $150-per-month war risk compensation for each seaman (average wages: $70 a month). The union also wants a $25,000 life insurance policy for each man, to be paid for by the U. S. Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...hero of thwarted lovers, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, went home, taking with him his still unroyal, still beloved Duchess. Once the news would have been the biggest in all Britain; last week it was just another parenthesis in the sad story of war. The Kelly was scheduled to dock at Portsmouth at 6:30 one evening. At 6:45 the blundering Ministry of Information announced that the Duke had landed. But not until 9, more than two hours after the news hit the wires, did the Duke set foot on the red carpet which covered the very jetty from...
Last week observers had difficulty recognizing the Queen Mary, though Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy...
...four destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial port, will dock the largest ships...