Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
Since the Seatrain started operating in 1929 the dock workers had watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
They certainly were not confirmed by the Navy Department. Two U.S. Navy officers who had been aboard the LC-3 1090 described Russian officers "shrieking" at them Russian orders for the 1090 to leave the dock without her captain. During the excitement, Consul General Benninghoff was rudely kept standing in the street without being admitted to the office of Dairen's Russian commander...
...aged prisoner who stood briefly in the dock of London's Bow Street Court was just a routine offender, an habitual pickpocket. But the boys on the reporters' bench, watching the Evening News's bald-headed Jimmy Jones at his shorthand, knew that the old dip would soon look different. Next day, to the Evening News's 1,600,000 readers...
...this doleful headline, the Liverpool Daily Post last week welcomed back 50 English war brides, who had tried life in Canada and found it wanting. As the liner Cavina was warped into the Liverpool dock through dank, grey mist, the homesick homecomers clutched their children and wept...