Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
...swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...wash that sailing ship off his chest-and took its charter away when it failed (TIME, Oct. 5). The Federation set up a competing longshoremen's union, sent gangs of tough A.F.L. men along the piers to add vigor to its organizing efforts, and began wooing dock workers from their old union...
...Card. The new union had been in existence for less than four months, was still being run by sailors, machinists and teamsters rather than bona fide dock wallopers. And I.L.A.'s new president, Tugboat Captain William V. Bradley, played a key card with neatness and effect: on the eve of the election, he met with John L. Lewis and announced that the miners' chieftain had extended his blessing. "Our financial worries are over," Bradley said, and added with satisfaction that he favored ducking permanently under Lewis' muscular wing...
...asked to see their leaders. Harry Johnson and Vince Malone stepped forward. "Tell your men to go home, boys," said Big Mike in a soft brogue. "If you don't, my men will do it for you." The labor leaders protested: "You let those Commies stay on the dock. You won't let our men off the ship, and you tell us to go home. Whose side are you on, anyway?" Said Big Mike: "I don't want to argue with you. Get your men off the street, and I'll get your boys...