Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Recovery Act also speckled the U. S. with strikes as workers sought to unionize and anticipate its benefits, as employers held out for the last penny of profit under the old system. From bridge builders in New Orleans to shoemakers in Lynn, from Buffalo dock-hands to Hollywood sound technicians, employes left their employers in the lurch...
...Southwest, the three Varsity crews got off to a perfect start. Harvard took an almost imperceptible lead in the first fifteen stroke, but after a minute of rowing, the Penn crew had gained the lead by one or two feet. with Navy trailing the Crimson by less than a dock. From the end of the second minute to the middle of the eighth, the prows of the three shells were within ten fact of each other, with the Naval Academy always in the rear...
...respectfully call your attention to Sec. 597a of the Penal Code of the State of California which says, "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dock the tail of any horse within the State of California, or to procure the same to be done or to import or bring into this State, any docked horse, etc." This was passed prior...
...Welles during the irksome time that his baggage was being landed. The arrival and landing of Ambassador Welles was not quite according to schedule. For some unexplained reason he disembarked with Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Reed at the port captain's pier instead of at the dock where the Machado reception committee was waiting for him. Embarrassed by advance publicity, the great "Red Riot" was called off. but again there was confusion. Half an hour after the scheduled time, 50 pseudo-Communists turned up at the pier to "riot," were shooed away by disgusted police...
...Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale was preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would...