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...when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...
Leathery, cigar-chewing Billy McMahon, 47, a dock walloper who loathed the gangster-ridden leadership of his International Longshoremen's Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner...
...NLRB is considering a new election, which the A.F.L. hopes to win. Dock Steward Billy McMahon thinks so. Happily planning to go back to work at Pier 32, he said: "This is very, very good. This is the beginning of the end for the old I.L.A...
H.M.S. Urania, a 1,710-ton World War II destroyer, lay at a Liverpool dock, undergoing conversion that would turn her into a fast, light, submarine-killing frigate. Her steel superstructures were being replaced with aluminum and she was being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual...
...Dickensian London. The characters are dregs of the town, led by an enterpriser named Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, who has managed to organize beggary and make it pay, and one Macheath, thief and trollopmonger. ("Sloppy Sadie was discovered/ With a knife-wound up her thigh/ And Macheath strolls down on Dock Street/ Looking dreamy...