Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large crowd which had gathered at the wharf to witness the dumping over of Japanese and German goods appeared rather disappointed at the affair, which turned out to be entirely for the benefit of the news cameramen on hand. As no one had bothered to procure bona fide foreign goods, empty boxes were used...
...wharf meeting concluded with a chant of "End the embargo on Loyalist Spain" to the tune of "Ring around the Rosy...
...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...
...Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were then pushed into the river, some were burned in huge piles, and three managed to escape. Of the 10,000 the boy figured there were about 6,000 ex-soldiers...
...Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week. But the 42-year-old beauty seemed doomed at last as final purchasers were announced, Virginia's Suffolk Scrap Iron & Metal...