Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked around the edges of the Mediterranean and made a startling claim: Rome radio said that the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, 30,600-ton battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class, had been seriously damaged by the Italian Navy. More than that, said Rome, the Valiant was still in dry dock after six months of repairs and the Queen Elizabeth "will require some time before repairs are completed." Knowing that the Italians were fishing for news, Britain kept...
...Francisco's 1934 dock strike West coast shippers-and then the whole U.S.-suddenly became aware of a gaunt, nervous man who talked with a cockney-like accent and abrupt gestures. He was fast gaining power over organized U.S. longshoremen. Australian-born Harry Bridges was wary, shrewd, and almost telepathically able to guess shipowners' moves before they were made. He led longshoremen with a dictatorial hand, rose to be named West Coast C.I.O. chief...
Relaxing after the ardours of the review just passed, a Mil Sci man, whose name has not been revealed for four of giving information to the enemy, was unlucky enough to lose his cap off the Weld Boat House dock in the middle of the quarter to six rush hour yesterday afternoon...
...datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
...sooner was the committee indictment out than the Navy chuffed up with its own report. "Direct and sole" cause of the fire, a Navy Court of Inquiry solemnly ruled, was "gross carelessness and utter violation of rules of common sense" by Robins Dry Dock employes. Full responsibility, the Navy grumped, belonged there. Recommendation: to sue Robins for damages to the full extent of liability...