Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bilets--and not billets doux--are the major excitement. From the little that has been bruited about, the West-coasters are condemning the Navy as a system for reducing the population of the state of California and the East-coasters are dreading assignment to dry-dock. But new pins will be stuck in the map in the cabin of the good ship Briggs by the time this paper goes to press. The beans (and the tears) will be spilled after the third disbursers vs. suppliers softball game scheduled for June 2. The winning team, and according to previous scores...
...Calcutta warehouses are bulging with it. Yet ships in the last month have been returning from India with unused cargo space. Reason: Indian exporters have jacked their prices up 15% in the last six months, but OPA maintains a tight price ceiling on burlap in the U.S. (at the dock, it now costs $15 per bale above the ceiling...
...peace he left behind him in the Caucasus: "Beside whitewashed, tin-roofed houses, on cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were women & children whom the destroyer was to evacuate when it had unloaded its cargo of men and munitions for Sevastopol...
Such was the straight-faced advice sent out last week by the Department of Agri culture. The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock. They all taste good with vinegar or cooked in bacon fat, said the department; they contain vitamins A and B, and iron...
Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...