Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Company He Keeps. In Seattle, Patrolman John H. Davis was assigned to the waterfront to round up sleeping vagrants on the docks, was eventually rounded up himself and suspended for 30 days, for sleeping on the docks while on duty...
Meanwhile, crowded into green Argentine Army tents in Buenos Aires' waterfront park, they stared at the glittering skyline, at the bulging grain elevators, and the ships from half the world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...
...fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront news coverage, Catalino does not yet share with the Communist leaders of his union their hatred for the U.S. He thinks the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and wants to go there-when his union can get him more money, that...
...finished a letter to the U.N., offering the property as a gift. The conditions: that New York City buy up and give to U.N. the few lots needed to square off the site; that the city turn over the streets included in the area, and rights to the waterfront...
...Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd's representative at France's famed...