Word: dockyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) When he advances, greasy with makeup, to his daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical...
Victor Gurney, a 17-year-old dockyard apprentice at Plymouth, told his girl that he loved her so much he could not live without her. She didn't believe him. So Victor went home one day last week, turned on the gas and died. "She will believe me now," he explained in a letter to his parents, scrawled across four pages in a cheap exercise book, "but it's a hard way of proving my love, don't you think...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...over Japan, the defeated were slipping off the straitjacket of occupation and sliding into the comfortable kimono of freedom. Almost daily, another hotel, office building, golf course, dockyard or apartment house was reclaimed from the occupiers. The special ticket windows and the white-striped railroad cars (for occupation forces only) were on their way out. Japanese merchant vessels were allowed to fly the Japanese flag once more in foreign waters. Last week Pakistan became the seventh nation to ratify the Japanese Peace Treaty, which makes it official as soon as all seven signatures are deposited in Washington (this will probably...
...ship Palmira spent her morning's earnings on a bunch of red carnations which she carried like a flag at the head of the procession. Singing, the 500 disheveled women marched through the dockyard gates toward the Dmitry Pozharsky. Police tried to tell them that the Russians would not let them on the ship. "You'll see," laughed Palmira...