Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicely pointed sequence: Case-hardened Saboteur Lloyd, taxi-bound for evil doings at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, observes the foundered Normandie at her Hudson River pier, indulges in a slow, sly, satisfied smile as the wounded liner passes from view...
...most serious confusion was among high-ranking officers in the pier shed: handsome, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the District (since transferred to command of the Eastern Sea Frontier), the captain of the port, Coast Guard officers, the district material officer. Said the report: "The Commandant did not consider himself either in charge ... or to be the responsible naval officer present. He considered the Normandie to be under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ships and of the district material officer. . . . He considered the fire department to be in charge of the fire." He considered himself merely...
Explanations crusted the situation like barnacles on a foul bottom. The past record of the port was as smelly as its long, cobblestoned Fish Pier. Port officials said that union-labor rules delayed shiploading and unloading operations. A.F. of L. longshoremen refused to work nights. Union rules required double-time wages ($3.60 an hour) for work during meal hours: breakfast, 5 a.m.-8 a.m.; dinner, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Because of a "lapse system" which allowed 20-minute rest periods, one operator figures that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever...
...Seeandbee went into cruise service, on a run that was the poor man's seven-day dream-tour of the Lakes. While she was quietly aging at Cleveland's East 9th Street Pier, the U.S. Navy took a look at her shallow draft, her gangling length (484.5 feet, overall), decided that with a little face-lifting and some new glands, she would do as a remodeled carrier. Her four stacks could be moved to one side, her upper deck and superstructure torn away. The old crone would become a Valkyrie. Before summer's end, said the Navy...
...sent to one pier were told by Army chiefs to stand by, as the cargo was not yet available. After two hours they were told to start loading onions. They loaded onions for three hours. Then they were told a mistake had been made. They were ordered to unload the onions...