Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet now rides at anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading the precious stuff that he needs to keep his fleet in fighting trim...
...concrete ships built in World War I had the reputation of cracking easily, even when they struck a pier. Nevertheless, many survived the Armistice. The McKittrick hauled oil until 1932, then became a nightclub boat off California until broken to bits in a storm. The Faith carried New Orleans-South American cargo for a while, is now a fish-reduction plant. The Rucker purred between Fort Myer, Va. and Fort Washington, Md. until fire got her superstructure...
...Aquarium was first a fort, built by the Government in 1807 on a rocky, offshore island in Manhattan harbor. Ceded to the city some 15 years later, it became an auditorium, Castle Garden, connected to the mainland by a pier.* At Castle Garden such notables as Lafayette, Louis Kossuth, Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) were publicly welcomed. There Jenny Lind made her U.S. debut...
...longer to reach Manhattan from Brooklyn than from Albany. This gave John Roebling a chance to carry out a pet project which previously had been laughed down: the great Brooklyn Bridge with its 1,600-ft. center span. Brooklyn Bridge cost him his life: a ferryboat crashed into a pier on which he was standing, crushed his foot, gave him tetanus...
Damaged at a pier in Suez lay the Arkansan (Sept. 11). Unscathed, somewhere in the Atlantic, was the U.S. destroyer Greer, which a Nazi submarine had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to torpedo...