Word: embarcadero
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...loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded steel, meat, fruit and vegetables. A Japanese silk ship waited ten days to unload its cargo, finally sailed back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them $15 a day. At Seattle 15 men boarded a tug, cornered the crew in the "glory hole," beat them senseless with hammers and clubs, took their money and scuttled...
Miss Doris McLeod, on Thursday, Oct. 19, swam from the shore to the island and then around it. She started from pier 45 on the embarcadero, bucked the tide all the way out and half the way back and landed at the South End Rowing Club in two hours flat...