Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesmen (Fri. 4 p. m. NBC-Blue, 4:15 p. m. CBS) sail for the Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru. Delegates, led by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speak from a Manhattan pier...
...mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board...
...manner grandly reminiscent of clipper ships days, the Queen Mary slipped into port helped only by a rowboat, several stevedores, and St. Christopher. Owing to the New York tugboat strike, the Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron saint of travelers. In his own words" "I looked at his kindly face and asked: 'Shall...
With a minimum of fanfare he ordered two heaving lines, attached to huge hawsers, to be dropped to a rowboat almost infinitesimal beside the liner. This craft ferried the lines of the pier, where they were hauled in by stevedores to the rhythm of a modern chantey that fitted in with the scene of a mechanical smoke and steel. Finally, after the snapping and curling of the forward hawser, three frantic excursions by the rowboat, and the working of winches and propellors, the ship was made sung. Rolling like the master of an old sailing ship, in which school...
...Police searched gingerly among the pilings under the walk while members of the volunteer fire department warned people to stay indoors. When police finally sighted Tuffy, they blazed away, slightly wounded him. He disappeared again. Two hours later Patrolman John Gares sighted the lion out on a wire-enclosed pier, crept up within five feet, shot him between the eyes...