Word: docked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking advantage of Prohibition in 1920, Luciano and Lansky supplied booze to Manhattan speakeasies. While others used small boats to offload mother ships, their contacts enabled them to dock ships in New York harbor...
Late in the 1890s, a young shipping executive named Edmund Dene Morel stands on the shipping docks of Antwerp, Belgium. Amidst the hustle and bustle of ships destined for the Congo, he meticulously records trade statistics for his employer, the shipping firm Elder Dempster. As Morel watches the sailors unload case after case of rubber and ivory from the incoming ships, he suddenly notices that the numbers don't match up. In these brief moments, standing on the dock in Antwerp, Morel finds himself amidst one of the largest slave-operations of this century...
...Fogg Museum currently has a loading dock on Broadway St., and both the Sackler and Fogg Museums have "unfriendly facades," according to Mary Power, Harvard's director of community relations...
...future of his company written in empty shipping containers. He watches cargo ships steam into the harbor laden with products from Asia. These containers would normally return to Asia full of American products. But now those goods are too expensive in Asia, so the containers stack up on the dock, harbingers of a recession. "It hasn't got to our level yet," says Laney. "But it will. We know it's coming...
...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...