Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
...When London dock authorities opened 50 cartons marked "razor blades" they found nothing but black soil. The blades had been dumped on the black market...
Whatever the solution, the West Coast wanted one quickly. Its uneasiness was growing. In Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, a battered mess of old metal dumped on a dock-the wreckage of Japanese planes and of U.S. planes destroyed by the Japs at Pearl Harbor-was a sinister reminder to West Coasters of what neglect and apathy can do in wartime. There was heard again the old muttered word, called up out of the smoky history of pistol battles, its syllables still rumbling like the horse hoofs of a posse ". . . Vigilantes...
...nosed around. District Attorney Frank S. Hogan questioned more than a hundred witnesses. Not until all the evidence was in could the question of sabotage be determined. But the story of carelessness looked worse & worse. The Navy maintained that responsibility for fire precautions was up to the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., conversion contractors...
...such a saving may be doubly important, for they must not only buy but haul their fuel. Cargo capacity of merchant ships, cruising range of warships can be upped by a 25 to 40% economy of fuel. (A mercury-powered ship was planned in 1938 by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., then postponed until mercury's problems were overcome...