Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...design. The facing of the bridge will be done in expensive fancy brickwork and granite in imitation of the Houses; the four gates to the MDC garages under the abutments will be of wrought iron copied from the gates to the Yard; and on the face of each main pier will appear gothic capital E's--for Eliot, of course...
...They bought new clothes, left their two children at home and boarded the Canada Steamship Lines' Noronic (6,905 tons), queen of the company's Great Lakes fleet, for her last trip this year to the Thousand Islands. When the ship tied up at Toronto's Pier 9 for an overnight stop, the Newmans went ashore for a movie, found the theaters jammed, came back to the ship to play gin rummy in the lounge. At 2:25 a.m. they smelled smoke, dropped their cards and rushed out to the corridor. Down its narrow length they...
Screaming "Fire! fire!", Newman ran toward the gangplank with his wife and others from the lounge. From the pier, they looked back. Within minutes, the 36-year-old ship, encrusted with innumerable coats of paint that burned almost Rke magnesium, was lighting the sky with flames...
...fought to get to ropes and ladders dangling from the ship's sides. Bashing through doors and portholes of the tiny staterooms, others got out-some naked or in flaming night clothes-to plunge headlong over the side and into the water or try a jump to the pier. There was time to lower only one lifeboat...
...Bottom. Firemen stretched aerial ladders to the ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...