Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once, the Queen actually sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again-still burning. The crewmen were in constant fear and complained to their union. A furloughed crewman, Able Seaman Zack Booth, a huge fellow known to his friends as "Big Brother," testified that one sailor, now missing, told him: "Big Brother, we are about to burn our house down...
Little David. The Reporter's survival is a measure of the bitterness of Port land's strike, which began with a stereotypers' protest over the introduction of automatic plate-casting machinery, and was soon punctuated by picket-line brawls and the dynamiting of newspaper delivery vans. Every other strike paper that has been started in the U.S. in the last 30 years-nearly a score in all-has done a quick fadeout as soon as the regulars returned to the newsstands. In Portland the regulars never really left; for six months they published a joint, typo-marred...
...coveralls. He was so low I saw a black spot with an eagle-or maybe an animal of some kind-on the body. He flew around a lighthouse at Elbow Key and circled back. Then he started shooting. I could see the bullets spraying in the water on the port side, maybe a couple hundred yards away. Paris hit the deck. God, I was scared...
...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...Coca-Cola values its secret formula (along with trademarks) at $43 million, and many other companies feel that the worth of their secret is greater than the net value of their companies. Sales of such products are sizable, while near-miss competitors fail. At the Angostura office in Port of Spain, the Siegert family has an elaborate display making that point. It shows more than 100 brands of bitters that over the years tried to match the real Angostura in taste and bottle, and in each case failed and faded away...