Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier outfit in Hawaii that suffers from too much red tape and not enough women. The cast contains 30 soldiers (six of them former actors) three paid actresses and seven local girls or wahine. The musical gets going with the outfit landing in Honolulu and gaily met at the dock by hula girls. From the wings comes a soldier bearing a sign: "Any similarity between this scene and our actual landing is purely accidental...
...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
Britons last week got an idea of the reception that the Beveridge Plan for social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...
...brick factory and a circus, then went to sea, where a Scottish mate taught him to read and write. After a few voyages he quit the Navy to become a shoemaker, then a warehouse hand, in London's East End. Before he was 30 he promoted the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union. Soon he acquired John Burns as a partner. In 1889 the two organized the famous 13-week Dockers' Strike, the first big step toward industrial unionism...
...submarine's black foredeck another knot of men stood. They were pale and bearded. They showed no emotion, only a smile here & there as friends on the dock tossed out coarse, friendly greetings. The submarine's skipper, Lieut. Commander Henry C. Bruton, stood on the bridge, giving quiet orders...