Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action." Rods and shafts had been cut with acetylene torches, engines and equipment wrecked with sledge hammers, bearings chiseled, bulwarks pried down with crowbars, boilers burned out, movable equipment dismantled. At Norfolk the blue-jacketed guardsmen caught one Italian in the act of sabotage. (On the same Port Everglades pier as the Potomac, guardsmen boarded the German freighter Arauca shortly after the President, tanned and refreshed, left for Washington...
Last week a thankful father and mother met Axel on a Jersey City pier and took him home to their modest flat. Axel greeted callers by bowing stiffly from the waist. What amazed Axel was the amount of butter on his mother's table. What amazed his mother was the way, when she started to turn on the lights, little Axel shouted to her to wait, then rushed to the windows and pulled down the shades...
...Geoffrey Ennor and her 2½-year-old son Neil from Penzance, England. As you are no doubt aware, the maximum amount of money allowed any one person leaving that country is ?10. At my suggestion, Mrs. Ennor converted only a small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine my amazement and disgust to find that she had been allowed...
University of Havana students whipped up a resolution demanding nonrecognition of the new Consul, fearing he would use his diplomatic immunity to promote Cuban fascism. Other Cubans stirred up so much trouble that police barred all visitors from the pier when the Marques de Camillas pulled in. Then shrewd Boss Batista heard his present was to be a sword from the Spanish Falangist Party and turned it down before it was even offered. Said his secretary: "He esteems it improper and inappropriate to think that a foreign political party with an ideology so contrary to that of the persons...
Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...