Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Stoddard handles all his jobs by split-second scheduling. Last week, at his induction, he had to gallop from Chicago and the emergency Navy Pier campus he had made available for 3,800 ex-G.I.s, to Urbana-Champaign, 120 miles away, where he educates 18,500 more students. The high point of the day was a speech by Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley, a Stoddard friend and an old math teacher himself...
Died. Harry Bacharach, 73, five times mayor (1911-20, 1930-35) and longtime "No. 1 Booster" of Atlantic City; in Atlantic City. An ardent publicity-grabber (he once carried on the city's business in an amusement-pier office flanked by an educated chimpanzee and a half-man-half-woman), he nonetheless worked noisily at keeping his resort free of known thugs and "undesirables...
Down the Queen Elizabeth's gangplank and on to Manhattan's Pier 90 one day last week the British movie industry stepped. Waiting on the dock, like a stack of plump pillows at the end of a laundry chute, stood a half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett...
...Staten Island pier last week the American Graves Registration Service began loading 6,200 new, bronzed-steel coffins aboard a Liberty ship, bound for the battlegrounds of Europe. It was the small beginning of a vast and Stygian job: the return of an estimated 80% of the nation's 251,000 identified war dead, who now lie in cemeteries scattered across four continents, but whose next-of-kin have asked that they be disinterred and brought home for reburial. Estimated undertakers' fees...
...harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House...