Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...have seen why she was different from any othe steel ship- there were no rivet-heads studding her sleek sides. All her plates had been arc-welded, with an estimated saving of 25% in construction costs, of 20% in weight. Her designer: Richard F. Smith, 30. Builders: Charleston Dry Dock & Machine Co. (under Vice President Charles...
Last week eight big tugs pushed the now completely restored Europa from her Hamburg dock to undergo three days of sea trials. Before the eyes of thousands of cheering schoolchildren, the Mayor and Corporation of Hamburg and STIMMING himself, dynamic little butterball director of the N. G. L., the Europa was caught ignominiously by the current and swung directly across the stream. Forty-five minutes later, her black hull righted, the Europa slid down the Elbe and out to sea, while SUMMING, Mayor, and aldermen clinked glasses in the fashionable Restaurant Jacobs...
Many a prisoner hurls accusations from the dock, desperately tries to save himself by accusing others. Sometimes the accusations are truth. In Berlin last week one Basilius Sadathieraschvili, a citizen of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, sought to win the Court's mercy by pleading that he was only a small cog in a very big counterfeiting machine powered by the Soviet Government...
...owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...