Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, under orders from I.L.A. President William V. Bradley, longshoremen began to trickle back to the docks. But injunction or not, the devisive issues involved in the strike were likely to be in and out of the courts and before federal mediators for weeks to come. Still to be settled is the union's demand-vigorously opposed by the shipping association on the ground that it can only bargain for shippers in its own area-that the I.L.A. be given a master contract covering all Atlantic and Gulf ports. Beyond that, the I.L.A. and the shippers...
...days later 71 marine wives and children set sail from Yokohama aboard another Navy transport. On the dock, a G.I. band played I Love You Truly and the Marine Corps Hymn. From the upper decks, the wives waved, blew kisses, wept. As the ship got ready to sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey...
...weeks Moscow's world-famed Bolshoi Theater Ballet-scheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Union-had kept London's ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons of scenery already rested on a London dock when balletomanes heard that the company would not come unless British authorities dropped charges against Nina Ponomaryeva, the husky discus thrower who is charged with shoplifting (TIME, Sept. 10); the authorities stood pat. When the Russians decided to come anyway, the three jet airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away...
Needed: a Dock. To get the carrier contract. Wolfson underbid Newport News Shipbuilding, which has built two of the ships, thus acquired experience which enabled it to bid about 6% lower on the second job than on the first. It is, moreover, traditionally the industry's shrewdest bidder. Nevertheless, Wolfson underbid Newport News by $6,000,000-$7,000,000. At that price, experts estimate, Wolfson will lose money. In addition, Wolfson's firm must now invest an estimated $8 million to $10 million in a graving dock just to begin building the sea giant...
...activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity of 10,000 troops per trip, had been mobilized in Marseille and Algerian ports, while a task force of one cruiser and six destroyers was already...