Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26¢ in the insurance rate on public dock property...
John Campbell, assistant plant engineer of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., returned to New York last week from the home of his ancestors on the S. S. Majestic with a portfolio of rare and valuable prints, a box full of strange balls and about 80 ancient & honorable golf clubs. There were warped cleeks, battered baffys, jiggers, brassies, spoons and nibicks, the whole making the finest collection of antique golfing impedimenta ever brought to the U. S. Soon they will occupy a special museum wing in the new cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After...
...first test ship, passing out of Hudson Bay by Hudson Strait under the bleak heel of Baffin Land, reached the Port of London in 16 days. This year 3,000,000 bushels of wheat are booked to go in 16 ships from Churchill's high-class modern elevator dock...
Captain Turner "almost busted a boiler," steamed up the river at 20 m. p. h. People writhed on the deck, lay panting below, gasping, retching, vomiting. Captain Turner steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully...
...erred July 11, p. 28, under the heading Aeronautics. Says TIME: ''No one last week could read the Los Angeles' future. . . . Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Alacon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia" graced the left lapel...