Word: piers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the Happiness had returned to her pier on opening night, Excursion, a comedy compassionate, tender and wise, had taken its place among the stage's rarer offerings, was being compared with that other notable maritime drama, Outward Bound. For by the beginning of Act II- when Obediah and his brother look out on benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship...
Narrowest escape from disaster was at anchor off the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, seawall when the Joseph Conrad was driven aground by a squall on New Year's Eve, smashed against a pier as the salvage tugs were moving her off. A $10,000 repair bill came near grounding the expedition then & there. "Ports," warns Author Villiers, "are bad places for ships and men." Luck was with them in the only other mishap of the voyage when they grounded on a coral reef in the South Seas...
...Steve Brodie, 23, Bowery newsboy, bootblack and publicity glutton, claimed to have jumped from Brooklyn Bridge July 23, 1886. Evidence persists, however, that a dummy was dropped from the bridge, while Brodie hid on a pier below, and dived in as the dummy struck. His story at the time was believed. A brewery financed a saloon for him. He made stage appearances, flourished for years, died of tuberculosis in 1901 in San Antonio...
Away from a Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about...
...Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley who, on the day Congress convened, obtained similar licenses to export $4,500,000 of similar second-hand war goods to Spain via Mexico: 4) Felix Gordon de Ordaz, Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, who was flying to Washington...