Word: wharf
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Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...
...wharf on the Persian Gulf is no check to Adolf Hitler. Persia's slim facilities for transportation must be improved. Rolling stock has to be brought in (mostly from India, which has a different gauge but can produce the proper gauge). Ports like Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf and Bandar Shah on the Caspian have to be modernized. Weak links in the railroads connecting the Persian Gulf with Russia must be remedied. To these ends a U.S. mission under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell, former Administrator of Export Control, prepared last week to leave for the Middle East...
...homeward in a grey swoop. On the way the commander could not resist trying out his deadly new toys. He brought the squadron low over a French port. Said he, when the Airacobras were safely home again: "We made a German ship unhappy and brushed some Germans off a wharf...
Last week the Government charged a wharf superintendent with theft of 232 tons of U.S. molasses, counted up 27,000 food prosecutions since rationing began. Scotland Yard puzzled over four blackout murders in eight days, searched vainly for a lone suspect, monocled, mysterious "Dr. Trevor...
Although interleague comparisons mean little, Brooklyn's Bums have as good a team batting average (.272) as the Yankees (.269). First Baseman Dolph Camilli (like Di Maggio, a product of San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf) has batted in more runs (120) than any National League player this season and socked more homers (34) than any player in either league, except Ted Williams of the Boston...