Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town. A dog's life? Maybe not, but it's a thoroughly entertaining one, and moviegoers of whatever age will...
...years (1927-53), burly Joseph Patrick Ryan ruled the New York waterfront as boss of the International Longshoremen's Association. With the connivance of wharf racketeers, Ryan cowed shipowners and decent dockworkers alike, and defied the forces of law. Last week in a Manhattan court Joe Ryan finally got his comeuppance, on the charge that he had accepted $2,500 in gratuities from a trucking company. "The defendant was not a union leader," said Prosecutor Arnold Bauman. "He was a racketeer. The I.L.A. was a racket, which perpetuated itself by a reign of terror, by brutal beatings, in some...
Army Secretary Stevens-whose testimony had been briefly interrupted by Smith's-returned to the witness table. As he read his prepared statement, he nervously licked his lips and forced his smile; his was the bemusement of a gentleman caught in a wharf brawl. Yet he was the man on whom the Army's case largely depended, and it was behind him that the Army's top echelons had rallied...
...Live at Peace. Once when the freighter tied up at a wharf at one port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled...
...which has still not recognized Britain), Jardine's took inconspicuous ads in the Hong Kong papers stating that it has "ceased to act as general managers" of Ewo (Happy Harmony) Cotton Mills. Jardine's hoped also to withdraw from Ewo Breweries and from the big Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Shareholders would get little for the privilege of withdrawing their managers, except cessation of paying tribute for them. So ended trading in China of the firm with the biggest British investment east of Suez...