Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carried Away. At Brooklyn's Coney Island, Fisherman William Lapicki heaved a manful cast off Steeplechase Pier, followed his rod & reel into the Atlantic...
Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
Payoff. In Battle Creek, Mich., 74-year-old James M. Pier won a divorce when he complained that his wife wore him out dragging him to bingo games...
Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...line of Catholic war veterans appeared at the Chukotka's pier, began picketing her on grounds that her cargo could be used against the U.S. in time of war. Longshoremen decided to join the protest, held a token strike for six hours. Within 24 hours the Chukotka case had made Page One of most newspapers, was being hotly discussed in Congress...