Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Piers. At an ammunition pier grey ships waited with yawning hatches, red flags fluttering at their mastheads. Freight cars were pushed out on the long pier, packaged ammunition was swung .aboard. The ships steamed softly, screens over their funnels. Longshoremen moved quietly, talked quietly...
Against the end of the pier bumped ferries, jammed with standing soldiers in full kit. A band played as they marched off, blinking in the bright-lighted cavern of the pier, their weapons banging their tails, their helmets heavy on their heads...
...like a moose decoy. What she met was "so sweet and human that I decided that anyone she worked for" (Mr. Selznick walked up the walls in devilish glee) "couldn't be nearly so crazy as I expected." When, in early April 1939, the Queen Mary docked at Pier 90, the remarkable Miss Brown had in tow the richest screen potentiality of a decade...
...last week with the blue, white & red flag of France above a famed name-French Line. Once one of the proudest of all shippers, employing 50,000, linking a hundred ports, beloved by Americans for its luxury liners and fabulous food, the 89-year-old line and her famed Pier 57 were household names...
...when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...