Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week United Fruit Co. announced banana priorities for all celiaca victims, advised parents to write or wire the Fruit Dispatch Co., Pier 3 of Manhattan's North River...
...largest boats and more are sure to go. There is practically no fishing on George's Bank (200 miles out of Boston) or Sable Island Bank (500 miles out), for centuries the nearest and best East Coast fishing grounds. Thus Boston's long, scale-paved Fish Pier took in only 114,664,000 lb. in the first six months of this year v. 153,838,000 lb. a year ago. The June catch was only two-thirds...
...Southern Cross used to be one of the biggest privately owned yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal...
...Navy last week quietly prepared for a sustained offensive against the Axis submarine menace on the Gulf, Caribbean and Atlantic coasts. On Miami's Pier 2 Navy men swarmed through a quarter-mile length of offices and warehouses. They pored over textbooks on gunnery, enemy ship and plane recognition, seamanship, navigation. They raced over the sea in fast, sleek boats. These were the men of PC-Patrol Craft...
...problem is vast, tough, dirty, dangerous and infinitely complicated. Diving work of a magnitude never before undertaken will be required. A school must be set up on Pier 88 to train scores of divers and hundreds of other salvage workers before the job can even be started. When salvage finally begins, the problem will include the construction of mammoth bulkheads inside the boat, to control the shift of the thousands of tons of water when she moves. The silt under her must be blown out and dredged out. A thousand holes in her steel skin, such as ports, must...