Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pier watching the proceedings were two UNSCOP members, Chairman Emil Sandström of Sweden and Yugoslavia's Vladimir Simic, a Communist statesman who has an eye for drama and knows a cue when he sees one. "What can I think of all this?" asked Simic, pointedly pious. "It is the best possible evidence that we can have...
...self-made immigrant from India, had built herself an enviable reputation as the toughest cat on the Brooklyn waterfront. Last week Susie, who weighs 20 pounds and has killed as many as four rats in an hour, aimed a potent left at an adversary at the Kerr Steamship pier. The rat ducked and Susie's haymaker carried her clear off the pier. Gamely Susie struggled shoreward, ending up on a piling under the pier. Dockwallopers combed the waterfront looking for her. After six days, the longshoremen heard her calls and organized a successful rescue party...
...stood bareheaded on the deck, the Ambassador visibly shivering in the raw winter wind, talking fast and repeatedly jabbing Perón on the chest with his index finger. Perón reassuringly patted the Ambassador. Then the President joined 12,000 Peronistas on the pier. "Perón! Messersmith! Perón! Messersmith!" chanted the crowd. For nearly an hour, as the Del Sud moved into the stream and out to sea, Perón stood on the quayside-still waving...
...them down on a two-foot asbestos shingle. Another advised from Australia that his daughter was on her way to attend school in the U.S. and that he could think of no safer escort from dockside to schoolsite than F. D. Pratt. (One of his staff was at the pier in Los Angeles when the young lady arrived...
...Montreal pier last week lay the 6,100-ton Radnik, a former U.S. troopship now owned by the Yugoslav Government. Her holds were being filled with Canadian machinery, including $330,000 worth of mining equipment, $182,000 worth of diesel engines and fishing gear. Her human cargo was waiting in tourist camps at suburban La Salle. They were 500 Yugoslavs who have had enough of Canada and want to return to their native land. Of an estimated 21,000 Yugoslavs in the Dominion, about 1,500 have signed up to go home...