Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, two months after the surrender, the first Allied ship was unloaded at a Cherbourg wharf. Its cargo: eight locomotives and 24 freight cars-to get more supplies moving...
While the Crimson Varsity was losing to the coast Guard, the B-team was belting out a 7 to 4 win over a team from constitution wharf on the scrub diamond...
...sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
...three miles of the kindling wood which had been the water front; scores of buildings were flat or leaning tipsily. Hardly a man, woman or child was un-bandaged. Three hundred and twenty-one men were dead-merchant seamen on the vessels and Negro naval enlisted men on the wharf had simply vanished...
Constitution Wharf Coast Guard travels here Wednesday and Tufts Saturday for B tilts...