Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo dock workers would lose their jobs. A New Orleans representative said the project would damage the South's biggest port...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
Last week a third trial was just getting under way; the jury was still being picked. Into Conroe courthouse, into the courtroom strode W. S. Cochran, landowner, husband of the woman White was accused of raping. Up to the prisoner's dock marched Rancher Cochran. He aimed a pistol at White's head, fired. The Negro dropped dead...
...bill authorizing the Maritime Commission to take over and use all foreign vessels now idle in U.S. harbors. Thus, with a pen squiggle, the U.S. became the prospective owner of 84 ships, totaling 459,140 tons. Topped by the $80,000,000 Normandie, now lying idle at her dock in the Hudson River, they also included freighters and six tankers-to help replace the 50 oilers recently turned over to British...
...mortgage for $7,328,140, the Maritime Commission the rest. But even after throwing out the Government's ante, the America cost U.S. Lines $850,000 annually in depreciation ($600,000) and interest ($250,000). And that was without even moving her from the dock...