Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were awards for dock laborers, trawler skippers, test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...advanced a week for reasons unknown. Said an official announcement: "The King's birthday will be celebrated in London and at all stations both at home and abroad on Thursday, June 10, 1943. In the case of the Customs and Excise Department and of officers and servants of dock companies in England and Northern Ireland, the appointed day for the celebration is Saturday, June...
...most serious problem was that Consolidated built hulls faster than it could get turbines to power them. He persuaded the Maritime Commission to lease the Long Beach municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated...
...dollars and dock...
...Lawrence River needs a channel for ocean-going ships that would give the heartlands of the North American continent dock frontage on the seven seas. The U.S. can pay for it in toll receipts at an overall cost no greater than one day of this...