Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazi past by finally facing the facts of how and why 4,000,000 Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
...happiness, don't trust me." Then, in a finishing kick of debased Algerism, he earns his passage to America as a gigolo and enters the country illegally with a group of indentured shoeshine boys. He has alienated all sympathy when, upon landing in New York harbor, he kisses the dock; one almost wishes that he would get a sliver...
With its dozen divisions and subsidiaries, including Brooklyn's New York Dock Railway and the Platt & Munk children's-book publishing house, Askanase's Dunhill now has sales of about $25 million. But the firm is much bigger than that; it is the largest stockholder (46%) in the money-manufacturing American Bank Note Co., also owns 54% of A. G. Spalding, which sold $58.5 million worth of sporting goods last year...
...shippers have no beef, mainly because they save in dock charges-up to $2,500 a day-when ships turn about faster...
Less than two months ago, Jefferson Davis, 44, was edging perilously close to certain death. A Negro dock worker, he had been in New Orleans' Charity Hospital since January with steadily worsening kidney disease. Doctors had kept him alive by dialysis, pumping salt and sugar solutions into his abdominal cavity to leach out the body's metabolic poisons. But this process could not keep him going indefinitely. And his doctors could find no human donor to give Davis new hope for life...