Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the week there were two near-disasters that gave pier officials the jitters, threatened to close the port altogether. The 6,535-ton American Export freighter Extavia smashed into its Brooklyn pier, leaving a 100-foot section of jagged wreckage. Then the Cunard Lines' green-hulled Caronia knifed through 30 feet of ten-inch concrete and rammed right up to Pier 90's shed before it could be stopped and worked into its slip (estimated damage to the two piers...
...Load of Furs. Gangster Francis Smith (who was hustled down under guard from Green Haven Prison, where he is doing seven-to-ten years for highjacking) matter-of-factly admitted doing a lot of shooting himself back in the 1930s. He told of having set himself up as a pier boss after ending a hitch in prison. It was easy. With three other hoodlums, he "decided to take a pier ... off two brothers by the name of Dillon, which we did. It was the Italian Line, Pier 59, North River. They went off without any trouble. They knew what would...
...Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them, set out to avenge his temporary kidnaping at the hands of Smith & Co. Four of them led by John ("Cockeye") Dunn (since electrocuted for murder), pulled alongside Smith in a car at Pier 72 and punctured him with one pistol bullet and eight shotgun slugs. The anti-Dunn Jersey mob, grateful for their furs, took the wounded man in, got him patched up by a doctor, and sent him to Cliffside Park, N.J. to recuperate. According to Smith's testimony, Cliffside...
...Archbishop Stepinac in Czechoslovakia" (the mayor presumably meant Yugoslavia). But the words were hardly out of his mouth before Richard McGrath of the John W. McGrath Stevedoring Co. testified that his firm had agreed to pay Kenny's son-in-law 50% of all profits on one pier to get the use of certain other Jersey City piers-though, as things turned out, the deal fell through, and they paid only $1,000 for good will...
Even the Army. Meanwhile, the commission was told that Jersey City's Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every...