Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge circle about the mooring mast at Camp Kearney, near San Diego, Calif., ten thousand people assembled one morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...
...Wales. He has also passed as a common laborer in the lower districts of Germany. He believes that the gentleman scholar of the operations of economic laws falls to get many important factors visible only to those who feel the effects of the law. He has posed as a dock hand, a builder, and a miner. Recently he investigated Soviet Russia, but as an author, because of the danger of detection in case of a poor impersonation...
...sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years ago a University cox ran his boat right up on the float so that the number 2 man could step out on the dock with no trouble...
...trip he started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of beer piled deck high, 55,000 bottles of vintage wine...
Second to none is the Port of New York, whose city-owned piers are leased to shipping lines from the four corners of the earth. As in many another municipal transaction, Tammany Hall manages to get a crooked finger into dock-leasing. Last week New Yorkers learned why travelers must go all the way to the Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas...