Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled 14,000 miles. He had talked with four Prime Ministers, twelve Cabinet members, one King (and an African tribal chieftain on the way home), one Archbishop, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, innumerable soldiers, policemen, laborers, dock workers, charwomen, waitresses, bricklayers, chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
...triple-acting Diesel engine with two pistons operating in the same cylinder won Patent No. 2,228,472, assigned to Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Claims: delivery, per pound of engine weight, of more than double the power of previous similar Diesels; cheap construction and operation. Two opposed pistons move synchronously together and apart in the cylinder. When closest together, they form between their inner heads a combustion chamber. Fuel is injected here and ignited by heat of compression (as in all Diesels), driving the pistons apart. Now two other combustion chambers are formed between the pistons' outer heads...
...when 17-year-old John Stephen Wright stopped there with his father in 1832, and opened The Prairie Store to outfit pioneers who were heading west. Two years later young Wright had made a small fortune in real estate, was worth $200,000. At 20 he owned a warehouse, dock, 7,000 acres along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. He knew nothing about farming but he thought farmers ought to learn more about it. So in 1841 he started The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer...
...idea: a pool of investment trusts to buy some of these British enterprises, perhaps sell them to the public. Quinn pointed to the pool Tri-Continental had formed last spring (TIME, May 20) that bought and later partly distributed the shares of great Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. But the idea was older than that. When William Orville Douglas was chairman of SEC and Jerome Frank was his running mate, the U. S. economy was stagnating for want of new capital investment. The investment bankers, having no capital to speak of, were taking only seasoned issues they could retail...
...News's Helen Kirkpatrick noted: "It is significant that districts where unofficial strikes (that is to say, strikes not organized by the trade unions) have cropped up happen to be districts where the Communist Party is most active. Communist agents have been found circulating in factories and among dock workers trying to stir up trouble...