Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of Chicago had long planned, occurred at 5:45 o'clock on a bright Saturday afternoon. It seemed as if everyone in Chicago had turned out. The lake front and the Century of Progress grounds were jammed with crowds centring in a tight mass at Navy Pier and trailing for miles along the shore. In front of the pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy fluttered overhead. Peddlers hawked pictures...
...Banker Harriman rode six times on different boats, gazing moodily at the water. Twice he started to climb over the rail, was hauled back by deckhands who failed to recognize him until hours later when they heard of the search. They last saw him driving away from the Manhattan pier...
...days before another Luckenbach boat had sidled into its slip in Manhattan with a first consignment of paraffined oranges. Luckenbach men and officials of the processing company which had devised a cheap way of dipping the fruit in paraffin, waited anxiously on the pier. They peeled off a few paraffin skins, found the fruit beneath succulent, glowing with health. Great was their rejoicing at the success of the new process...
...exhibit last week at Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier, between an educated chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite, was an educated politician. Behind a glass door marked MAYOR was His Honor Harry Bacharach. It was not long before a local wag attached to the door another sign: PLEASE DO NOT FEED...
...series of industrial excursions to take place on Tuesday afternoons has also been arranged. The schedule follows: July 11, Athenaeum Press; July 18, General Baking Company; July 25, Lever Brothers Company; August 1, Boston Fish Pier; August 8, W. F. Schrafft & Sons Corporation...