Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled up at last with Banker Holy Spirit Silva, embarked with his staff of three...
Banned by the Neutrality Act from the waters she was built for, the America would eat up maintenance fees (perhaps $1,000 a day) just tied to a pier. There was no hope of putting her into the South American trade (U. S. exports up 59% over last year), for the Grace Line and the American Republics Line had that continent sewed up. But in the U. S. ocean shipping business, the Government taketh away, but also giveth. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt signed the Bailey-Bland bill, authorizing the Maritime Commission to absorb all or part of the deficits...
...Embassy in Paris received this affidavit: "I, Lloyd R. Stark, a native-born American citizen of Mystic, Conn., certify that Germans bombarded Malo-les-Bains, near Dunkirk. This is an open town, actually a seaside resort similar to Narragansett Pier, Watch Hill, Palm Beach and Malibu. I am seriously wounded in a hospital. Have lost all my property, as have many others. Request aid in food and clothing...
...Conte di Savoia's gangplank touched a Manhattan pier, a man in black darted aboard. Confused, he peered in vain through the crowd for the person he expected. "Here she is!" chorused the crowd. Blushing, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar Procope rushed to greet his fiancee, Margaret Katherine Mary Shaw of York, England (TIME, March 25). They were married two days later in Fairfax...
...Manhattan pier, one day last week, 75 cantors chanted. Five hundred rabbis, 500 pious Jewish laymen craned at a stout, full-bearded man in a fur hat debarking from the Swedish liner Drottningholm. From his long wanderings in Eastern Europe's ghettos, great & good Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn at 60 had come to make his home...