Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gleaming white in peacetime paint, the Army transport Thomas H. Barry eased out from Manhattan's Pier 84, nosed down the Hudson to the sea. Aboard her, goggly with excitement, 349 Army wives & children milled through the maze of corridors and companionways, clustered on deck for photographers, clung to the rail with last, fluttering farewells. The first contingent of service families was off to join the occupation forces in Europe...
Boston's beleaguered fisherfolk looked uneasily toward Canada. Last week the Dominion's shipments of cod fillets to the U.S. ran almost neck-&-neck with those sliced from Boston catches. Week before, Canadians dumped more cod on Boston markets than were landed at the sprawling Fish Pier by the city's own boats. Reason: a three-month-old labor dispute had tied up the big steel trawlers of eleven of Boston's fishing companies, allowed only the smaller draggers to operate...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...Uraga had a harbor reception of a different kind. The arriving travelers were 336 Japanese men, women & children-diplomats, businessmen and newspapermen returning home with their families from foreign posts. From the decks of the rusty old Tsukushi Mam, they gazed glumly at the panorama of defeat. On the pier was a delegation of U.S. Eighth Army personnel. As the sullen repatriates debarked, they were hustled to the customs shed. There, teams of doctors, officers and G.I.s (for the men) and nurses, WACs and female Nisei (for the women) stripped them, ripped their clothing open at the seams, paraded them...
...duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies. I learned that . . . the Atom Bomb was a development of German science, that Hitler was dead, that given four months Germany could have won, that freedom of speech was a sickness enjoyed by democracies and not compatible to German Natur...