Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real, the river's ice through which the transport inched, the towers of Manhattan like a backdrop in the haze. There were the pier, the music, the unbelievable feeling of being home again. There was the luxury of the warm, green-cushioned train, talking its metallic monologue across the wintry miles of home. At Camp Shanks, N.Y., there were white sheets, steaks and cold, country-fresh milk. Like gamblers fingering impossible mountains of winnings, the 1,300 soldiers could see and feel it all. But their minds could not yet quite accept this fairy-tale return...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
Road to Tokyo. Today hundreds of vessels-boats, warships,' cargo carriers, combat transports-crawl across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...
Then came the massive pierings-some seven miles of pier equipment, broken down into prefabricated units for towing...
President Picado sent out reinforcements. In the village of Zarcero the revolutionists fired at random. In the town of Quesada they fired at the constabulary. As they approached the pier on the San Carlos River, the local constabulary opened fire. Score: two revolutionists wounded...