Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...
...economic evangelism had to be preached and practiced. Freight rates had to be readjusted. Factories had to grow in the catfish rows of the old South. Chep Morrison's New Orleans had made a good start. The city's great crescent-shaped waterfront was a manifestation of a new day. The artery throbbed with more than trade. It throbbed with new hope...
Sugar, pineapples and the islands' huge military institutions were still basic industries. But now there were many new small businesses, and organized labor had become a controversial force-Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Union controlled the waterfront, represented sugar and pineapple workers throughout the islands, claimed 35,000 members...
When she came into Boston harbor four days later with a broom tied to her mast in token of a clean sweep rescue, she was given a tumultuous reception. Small craft swarmed around her, fireboats threw spray, whistles blew. Thousands lined the waterfront to see her. City officials and Coast Guard brass came aboard to offer captain and crew their congratulations and a horde of reporters descended on the Sky Queen's passengers...
...prizewinning picture Marine Still Life. An intricate tangle of moorings, anchors, buoys and boats, it was laboriously pieced together from sketches made at Frankfort harbor, on Lake Michigan. Last year's winner-Karl Knath's abstract Gear-had been similarly composed from sketches of the Provincetown waterfront, but Sepeshy's was far more recognizable...