Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lapham came home to San Francisco after Hotchkiss and Yale ("I'm one of those mass-produced guys"), he wasn't interested in working for his father, then A-H's president. Instead, he wrote a shipping column for Hearst's Examiner, learned about the waterfront and gained a reputation for brains and high spirits. After six years of this, he went to work for A-H and was lent to the Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept...
TIME'S STORY "DISASTER" PAGE 22, APRIL 28TH ISSUE, STATES: "THEN, IN A SPLITTING SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS . . . THE MONSANTO PLANT AND MOST OF THE REST OF THE WATERFRONT BLEW UP." THIS IS NOT CORRECT. NO PART OF THE MONSANTO PLANT EXPLODED OR BLEW UP. MATERIALS HANDLED BY THIS PLANT WERE INFLAMMABLE BUT NOT EXPLOSIVE, AND THE PLANT BURNED BUT DID NOT BLOW...
...shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor...
...with the docking of the Beaver-burn and the ships that followed her, the waterfront echoes once more to longshoremen's shouts, the clatter & clank of cargo winches unloading woolens, steel, chemicals, motorcycles, automobiles, china and plate glass from across the sea. The ships take back Canadian goods. Last week one ship loaded on 1,071 cases of Canadian whiskey for Britain. "That's for us poor blokes," sighed a bosun. "They're sending the Scotch over here...
...same spot, because Texas City was too well located to be killed by a single disaster. But others standing on the football field in the chill evening, at the mass funeral service, were not so sure about Texas City's tomorrows. The false sunset from the waterfront still rouged their set faces. And in the ruined center of town, the big clock on the Magnolia garage was still stopped dead...