Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells of the church carillon pealed, 400 swarthy fishermen in their Sunday best, followed by a score of clergy, made their way from the church to the fish pier. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing of Boston, in scarlet, purple and gold vestments, mounted a flag-decked platform facing the 24 draggers tied up together, with pennants fluttering in a stiff breeze. In his stentorian voice, which made the giant loudspeakers superfluous, the Archbishop said...
...Steve, Jim and myself will all go down to meet him at the pier. The ship will be late. Many people will be waiting. When it arrives we shall find my father. I would start asking so many questions. Pop would not answer all of them. He would want to forget the war now that he was home. By the time we got home it would be lunch time. He would then eat his first home cook meal in one and a half years. I am sure we shall have a very fancy lunch. After about an hour eating, filling...
Newport News did build good ships. Its first, the tug Alvah H. Clark, still chuffs up & down the James River, helped shepherd the Midway (see cut) from the dry dock in which it was built to the outfitting pier downstream. But the yard could not show a profit until Ferguson joined the company, after Huntington died and the yard had passed to his heirs...
...news that the brandy was piled on the pier spread quickly. But the arrival of the French ship did not mark the resumption of a flourishing wine trade with France. The shipment had been four years en route to the U.S. Ready for shipment when trade with France was halted, the 8,504 cases were stored in Marseilles and left untouched by the Germans, who seemed to prefer champagne...
...ship's rail: "There's the Old Lady, fellas. There's the Old Lady. . . ." As the Statue of Liberty took shape through the mist, they yelled and banged fists on other men's shoulders. But they were quiet as the ship docked. On the pier they reached out like children to touch the Gray Ladies who served them food-American women...