Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force was the first to buck the U.O.E.F. successfully. In 1949 it insisted that workers unloading cargoes for Clark Field should be paid direct, not by the capataces. This year the government dealt the U.O.E.F. its second blow. It let the pier haulage contract to Delgado Bros., who signed up Associated Workers' Union (A.W.U.) labor and began paying the workers direct...
...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...
...years Italian police sought to discover who had sent Gualtierotti a pair of boots with nitroglycerin concealed in the hollowed-out heels. Last week police had their murderer-Gualtierotti's cousin Pier Luigi Tamburlani. Tamburlani confessed after a Rome bootmaker, interviewed by police about another case, recalled making a pair of hollow-heeled boots for Tamburlani in late 1936. Tamburlani told the bootmaker that the heels had to be hollow because the boots were intended for an official who needed a hiding place for secret documents...
Fire licked down a wooden pier and set ablaze the old decommissioned transport tied in Baltimore harbor. Confiscated from Germany, a troop transport in two wars, a passenger liner in the '20s with a record of three groundings, three collisions, two murders, Prohibition raids and countless small fires, the George Washington, which carried Woodrow Wilson and a cargo of great hopes to the Versailles Peace Conference, was gutted beyond repair...
Docking in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Windsor found the Duchess, who had arrived last month, waiting for him at the pier. He gave her one royal buss, and then half a dozen more for the benefit of photographers. As for all those rumors of a rift, he explained that he had stayed behind in France merely to finish some proofreading on his memoirs...