Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isles were demilitarized, triads of German "flying pencils" (Dorniers) last week swooped low, unopposed, to bomb and machine-gun what the German High Command called "troop concentrations." Eyewitnesses reported the blasting of lines of trucks carrying tomatoes and potatoes, the slaughter of a score of civilians at one dock in Guernsey. Following the bombings, the Channel Islands were taken over by German troops from the mainland, who scoured the shores and interiors for hidden British observers left behind...
...Buenos Aires the British motorship Gascony floated quietly at her dock, prepared to sail for England with British volunteers and a cargo of canned meat...
...shafts held mountains of food and ammunition, furnished air-raid protection. The town of 21,000 on the western slope was evacuated of noncombatants. Debarkation of all non-Allies was stopped last week and a Spanish ship plying across the bay from Algeciras was not allowed even to dock...
Alongside her dock in the sun-baked harbor of Alexandria one day last week lay American Export Lines' S. S. Excalibur, loading to the rattle of donkey engines and the babble of Levantine tongues. Day before, as the Excalibur docked, three days out of Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then...
...contract for four sleek, 489-foot, 9,2Oo-ton passenger ships originally destined for U. S. Lines' New York-London trade. Ingalls is not alone in its belief that the riveted ship is on the way out. Near Newport News, Va., home of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., No. 2 U. S. shipbuilder, the famed Mariners' Museum is quietly stocking riveting equipment in anticipation of the dav when it will become a museum piece...