Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency, under laws invoked only five times in the past 50 years.* The proclamation enables the government to impose price controls and to clear congested ports-presumably by using Royal Navy tugs and crews-and allow foreign ships, which are unaffected by the striking National Union of Seamen, to dock and unload essential food, raw materials and medical supplies. Well aware that the use of the Royal Navy could provoke sympathy strikes by dockers and truckers handling imported goods, Wilson's government later in the week announced that an independent four-man court of inquiry, headed by Appeals Court...
...miners' strike, the general strike of 1926, the dock strikes of 1948 and 1949, and the railway strike...
...Attorney Abraham Fischer seemed destined for great things. The son of a former judge-president of the Orange Free State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...
...goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy-but hark: what about the beautiful, coolly poised governess who smugly glides around the joint and who soon becomes so obviously pregnant? And what about the legend of the tower dock, which stops when somebody is about...
...dock-walloper-with the police ever tagging his footsteps. Danny's first job was arranged by Grace's new husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago...