Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal the nation had was in the wrong places; the strikes had dislocated normal distribution. Labor trouble was another obstacle to righting distribution: while New Yorkers shivered last week, a longshoremen's wage dispute slowed unloading of 300 carloads of New York-bound coal at a Jersey City pier...
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...Pier F in Jersey City, the repatriated Americans got off the Red Cross exchange ship Gripsholm, and the community of fate dissolved into 1,223 individual owners of 1,223 individual ration books...
After centuries of wading through shallowing water and deepening machine-gun fire, the men split into two groups. One group headed straight for the beach. The other struck toward a coconut log pier, then crawled along it past wrecked boats, a stalled bull dozer, countless fish killed by concussion. Those who got ashore did not know just how many of the 15 had been lost - probably three or four...
...embarkation was a nightmare of hurry and numbers and weariness. The train had marked the real departure, the breaking of the cord, the physical moving off of the visible men. The ship lay quiet, a stolid appendage to the pier. Even when she moved into the stream, she moved as a ship, an iron entity anonymous and impersonal. The men hardly knew they were leaving...