Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union presented The Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Kearney, N. J. with a contract containing, among other demands a closed shop which would force the company to fire any employee who, as long as the contract lasts, fails to pay his does on for any other reason, remain a member "in good standing." On July 8, 9, and 10, with the aid of the National Defense Mediation Board, all contractual disagreements were ironed out with one exception. The company refused to accept the union's demand for a closed shop, on the grounds that is "the right...
...State Department agent, waiting at the dock, whisked "Spy" Sebold to FBI headquarters. He turned over $910 and the microfilms to an agent, went on FBI's payroll at $50 a week. For the next three months he lived in a maze of instructions even more bewildering than those of Hamburg. A Mr. Price, became William Sebold long enough to set up and operate a radio transmitter (selecting a comfortable house in quiet Centerport...
...News Today. As the Potomac eased to the dock, the big, rosy-jowled face of Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson bloomed suddenly over the rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...
...Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co.'s vast yards in Kearny, N.J., labor and management came to an impasse over a matter of policy. Wages, hours and conditions of work had already been settled or were not a matter of serious dispute. For promising 0PM to forgo strikes for a year, C.I.O. shipyard workers demanded a "union shop." Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, rejected the point on principle, stuck to Big Steel's long insistence on the open shop, turned down a Defense Mediation Board's compromise...
...annual Miles River Regatta, held off St. Michaels, a crabbing port on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...