Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
Escorted by Admiralty tugs, the Leonardo da Vinci steamed up the Thames to the West India docks in London's grimy Limehouse. At the dock was the reception committee: Sir Austen & Lady Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, President Sir William Llewellyn of Britain's Royal Academy where the pictures will be shown. Lady Chamberlain hastened aboard to find out whether damage had been done. Proudly Captain Sturlese, nine medals glittering on his breast, told her that every crate was intact...
...consignment from Italy was the last to arrive in London. From the Limehouse dock four police manned vans carried the crates through guarded streets to Burlington House, Piccadilly, copied after an Italian palace and long the seat of the Royal Academy...
Justice, long delayed, moved thoroughly. Thirty persons accused of complicity in the Nagyrev poisonings were in Hungarian jails last week. Hungarian police promised that when the trial opened at least 100 would be in the dock...
...carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...