Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Housing also became Mr. Moffett's immediate personal problem. He brought his 124-ft. yacht Bidou to Washington to live in. The District of Columbia has piers, at which yachts may be tied up, but the channels need dredging. The only pier with enough water to float Bidou was already rented for $30 per month to John Hays Hammond Jr. for his Ripple. Hence Mr. Moffett had to anchor Bidou out in the Potomac where he could not even have the convenience of a telephone...
McCormick Steamship Co. has been located at Piers 38 and 40 for years and such credit or blame as may be attached to steamship participation in the opening of Pier 38 therefore should rest on our shoulders...
Fair, clear and accurate, for the most part, was TIME'S account of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, July 16, p. 12). But it was not "Norton, Lilly's Pier 38" on San Francisco's Embarcadero where the first attempt to open the port was made by the Industrial Association, but rather McCormick Steamship Co.'s Pier...
...Francisco's Industrial Association had warned that it would open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads...
Other passengers who left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...