Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archangel was having a flood and the train had to stop at a nearby village, where we transferred to a river steamer. There was a mile and a half of deep mud between the station and the dock, with no transportation. There were porters at the station, but they knew their own value and the prices they were asking were outrageous. To show brotherhood, my baggage was distributed by the discharged sailor, who took the heaviest piece himself along with all his own; and the trek began. It was cold and muddy and miserable, but the psychological atmosphere was warm...
...Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood and fire it will rise again," before they were shackled and led off to prison...
...rights to use Bird's Eye frozen-food processes outside the U.S., runs a General Motors agency in the Union of South Africa. At the model town of Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Unilever runs the world's largest private printing press, the world's largest private dock, has built acres of Tudor-style, neatly landscaped cottages for workers. They get a guaranteed wage from Lever, have their children educated by Lever, their doctor bills paid by Lever -and are buried by Lever...
...Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat to Europe. So far, the money...
...year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...