Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About an hour before sailing time, Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., buttonholed a Queen Elizabeth steward. Hadn't his case of butter come aboard yet? His Excellency dashed back onto the dock, scurried three blocks to a grocery, came back lugging ten pounds of butter and eight of bacon-for friends at home, he explained...
...night before his ship sailed, posters appeared on city walls summoning Porteños to a farewell to "a great friend of all Argentines." They responded. Next day at the dock, a band alternately played the Argentine national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner. President Perón, his Cabinet, and the diplomatic corps arrived and were ushered aboard...
McFeely put down uprisings with a ruthless hand. His political control penetrated everywhere. City employees were terrorized. Dock workers were compelled to vote the right way or risk the wrath of A.F.L. union bosses. McFeely had few worries about outside political interference -though he despised Hudson County's notorious Boss Frank Hague, he maintained a working alliance with...
Down the Queen Elizabeth's gangplank and on to Manhattan's Pier 90 one day last week the British movie industry stepped. Waiting on the dock, like a stack of plump pillows at the end of a laundry chute, stood a half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett...
...great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock to see if I can swim." West Coast shipping men were betting that he could...