Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...some 200 years, Lloyd's of London had known every day of the Empire's growth-every new wharf, every skirmish, every treaty. One night last week, Lloyd's, like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There...
...earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
Papa DiMaggio, who ran a fishing boat from the wharf at the foot of Taylor Street, believed that his five sons should be fishermen too. All the boys-Tom, Michael, Vince, Joe and Dominic-worked on the boat at one time or another, but most of the time they preferred to play baseball. "Baseball, what is that?" Papa DiMaggio used to shout. "A bum's game! A no good game! Whoever makes a living at baseball...
Died. Susan Glaspell, 66, little-theater pioneer, novelist, and Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Alison's House, 1930); of virus pneumonia; in Provincetown, Mass. She and first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...