Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barging In. In Yonkers, N.Y., when a barge broke away from its moorings and began drifting down the Hudson, police hopped into a car and dashed to a dock downstream, hoping they could figure out a way to catch it. At the dock they found the barge neatly self-berthed...
...Hardest hit are the railroad and dock areas. In the harbor a sunken liner's funnels still stick out of the water. The remains of one or two ferries clutter the slipways. Concrete piers have been cut in two. Railway cars are smashed. The scene recalls the earthquake of 1908, when 91% of Messina's buildings were destroyed and 78,000 of its residents perished...
...Army's Colonel Paschal Neilson Strong supervised construction of the new lock (writing the adventures of "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy" in his spare time); Chicago's Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. did the work...
...office can be pleasant, the chair on the gently swaying deck, with halyards, birds and daughter Anna to look at, came near it. But when weather was rough and the deck bounced too much for the doctor to brace his stocky body for an extraction, he repaired to the dock and yanked without ceremony...
Nowhere to Go. This year Dr. Good has nowhere to go. The Cheechako bobs at a Seattle dock, where Anna, now married to a Naval officer, keeps an eye on her. Dr. and Mrs. Good live in a bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed...