Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston strike, although it has not received the extensive comment that attended the strike of the dock workers on the Pacific coast, has tied up shipping traffic in Boston Harbor...
Fundamentally, the purpose of this most recent local strike is the same as that of the San Francisco workers. Although the system of hiring dock workers, the bone of contention on the West Coast, differs somewhat in this section of the country, the Boston workmen ask for control of the shipping bureaus which hire the men. They also ask for shorter hours, higher wages, and recognition of unions of the workers' choice...
...launching this week, 100,000 people from all over the United Kingdom were headed for Clydebank. Grandstands seating 16,000 have been erected in a wheatfield opposite the shipyard. More than 1,000 invited guests will view the ceremony from the Anchor liner Tuscania, berthed at an adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...
...bought the U. S. Lines from the Shipping Board, it contracted to send the giant S. S. Leviathan on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. During the first year under this contract the Leviathan lost more than $500,000. Thereupon the U. S. Lines put her in dock at Hoboken, N. J., for a year, tried to persuade the Government to cancel its contract. The Government stood by its bargain, but the company had this loophole: U. S. Lines might omit two of the Leviathan's seven contracted trips on payment of a $20,000 fine...
When a Briton named Bill Morris turned up with his Bible in Buenos Aires' Boca dock section in the late 1890's, that district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them...