Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the war reached out to Chicago. Since late July the Dutch freighter Prins Willem III had swung at anchor off Navy Pier, unable to sail back up the St. Lawrence for fear of capture in Canada. But by last week internment in Canada looked better to the bored, sequestered Dutch than gazing at the Chicago skyline all day. Onto the deck swung a Canadian crew, headed the Prins Willem III out across Lake Michigan...
...Hudson rolled more echoes of war. Behind the guarded gates of Manhattan's West 50th Street pier the kits of 190 British tars were hoisted aboard the ponderous Queen Elizabeth. Within a fortnight she was expected to set out for Halifax, where 12,000 bunks would be installed, then sail to Australia on transport duty...
...mounting for the telescope is of the two-pier type, but the special nature of the Schmidt-type reflector has made it necessary to include several unusual features. Construction is being super-intended by Mr. Herbert E. Hanson of the observatory staff. Except for the polar axis and counterweights, the mounting is of Dowmetal,--probably the first telescope mounting ever made of this specially light and strong magnesium alloy. The Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Mich., cooperated in providing the difficult castings necessary for both the telescope tube and mounting...
...time was over, dusk was falling in Boston Harbor. The U. S. destroyer Aaron Ward backed out of her pier and headed into the Atlantic. Behind, in a single grey file, trailed the A.P. Upshur and the Hale. Motorists on the Charlestown Bridge and idlers in North End Park honked, cheered, waved. Off for Canada and World War II were the first of 50 destroyers which the U. S. Navy last week gave up to the British...
...that day had begun. The Duke & Duchess of Windsor walked slowly down the gangplank of the Canadian liner Lady Somers to meet a welcoming roar from thousands of Bahamians jampacked around the pier. From the casuarina trees around Rawston Square, barefooted natives shouted down greetings as the new Governor General and his lady moved up the street to the Legislative Council Chambers...