Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...
Answer to Franco. Engineers labored to perfect airdromes and dock facilities at Casablanca and Dakar, to provide alternate points of entry for planes, men and equipment in case Gibraltar falls and the Mediterranean ports of Algeria are immobilized. Gibraltar is now the principal way station for bombers flown from Britain to North Africa, and perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria...
Suicide of a Fleet. The first German armored force, having fought its way into the base, reached Milhaud dock where the battleship Strasbourg was lying. As German officers leaped from their cars and ran to the gangplanks, there was a flash and a roar and the great, 26,500-ton ship disintegrated before their eyes...
...financial arrangements. For building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting up a nickel of their own, and despite alleged incompetence, inefficiency and delay...
Seventeen months after the armistice of Compiegne, the leaders of the Third Republic stood in the dock at Riom to answer war-guilt charges dreamed up by Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...