Word: waterfront
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...were things to be said on both sides; there were excuses and rationalizations. But the ugly fact was that the behavior of many G.I.s in Europe was disgraceful. It was not just that there were rights in the Place Pigalle (which G.I.s call "Pig Alley") and fights on the waterfront of Le Havre. It was not just holdups here and drunkenness and rowdyism there...
...Island and his buried treasure were back in the news last week-for the last time. The King, a wild, unkempt, silent man, came to Boston in 1846, got a lonely job as keeper of Bug Light, finally retired to salt-bleached solitude on an outer harbor island. By waterfront legend, he was one of the pirates who had ravaged the West Indies early in the 19th Century, had come to the U.S. from Canada after murdering a man with a barrel stave. The King died in 1882 without discussing the matter...
From the start, A.P. was noted for his daring and unorthodox operations. When his bank building was destroyed in San Francisco's earthquake in 1906, he opened a new bank in a waterfront shed, expanded by lending to businessmen who had been wiped out. A pioneer in branch banking, he now has California blanketed with 491 Bank of America branches. He became Hollywood's banker, has so far lent the movie industry...
...comfortable mess hall and given turtle soup, roast beef and egg sandwiches.* They had expected to sleep on the ground but were shown to comfortable beds with snowy linen sheets. Japanese guided the Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything...
...Manila, sunken Japanese ships still littered the bay's muddy floor, many thrusting gaunt masts and rusted superstructures out of the water. But Manila Bay had come back to life: last week plump Liberty ships tied up to the scaly hulks, rode at anchor or nestled at waterfront berths. Their cargoes moved on shuttling Army ducks and landing craft, in rumbling trucks. The world's worst-cluttered harbor was back in business, handling more tonnage than before...