Word: embarcadero
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...shed on San Francisco's Embarcadero last week stood three young men, stiff and ill at ease, listening intently while an MP captain read an official paper. They had just had a happy reunion with their families, whom they had not seen in five years, and now the unpleasantness was about to begin...
...pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...
...direct competition with Jack Benny." Breen moved into Webb's $30-a-month room. A little later KGO was asked to fill an empty Sunday night half hour "for a Pacific feed" (all West Coast ABC stations). Breen, who was fascinated by San Francisco's Embarcadero, put together a hard-boiled private-eye show about waterfront crime, called it Pat Novak for Hire. Webb was Pat Novak...
...cold, persistent rain blew in from the Golden Gate one afternoon last week, and fell impartially on three groups of armed men on San Francisco's battle-scarred Embarcadero. Aboard the passenger ship Aleutian, berthed at Pier 39, were 103 trapped crewmen, members of the A.F.L. maritime unions. Huddled against the pier were 20 pickets from the rival National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, abetted by 500 fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners...
...Force. As a matter of fact, U.N. had done about as well as such realists as Van Kleffens thought it would. Despite warnings that U.N. was not world government, the man in the street from San Francisco's Embarcadero to Calcutta's Chowringhee focused his attention on the international police force that was supposed to prevent aggression. On its second birthday, U.N. showed no sign of becoming a supersovereignty...