Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
Since January 1942 the Japanese had held Rabaul on Blanche Bay, the flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul...
...brick factory and a circus, then went to sea, where a Scottish mate taught him to read and write. After a few voyages he quit the Navy to become a shoemaker, then a warehouse hand, in London's East End. Before he was 30 he promoted the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union. Soon he acquired John Burns as a partner. In 1889 the two organized the famous 13-week Dockers' Strike, the first big step toward industrial unionism...
...White House phaeton coasted down a ramp to Washington's Navy Yard wharf. The top was down, the bulletproof glass windows up. On the back seat were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in white linen suit and a Panama hat, Eleanor Roosevelt in white, and handsome, sad-eyed Crown Princess Martha of Norway, in mourning for her cousin-by-marriage, the late Duke of Kent, her severe black dress and hat relieved only by a double strand of gleaming pearls...
From his car Franklin Roosevelt, with a sailor's appreciative eye, took in the trim new subchaser PC-467, snugged tidily to the wharf, her brightwork glistening in the hot September sun. Radio technicians placed a battery of microphones across his lap. Said the President of the U.S. to the Crown Princess of Norway and the people of the world...