Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Russian soldiers ignored the baseball. But when they discovered the sailors practicing basketball with a decrepit volleyball and backboards erected on the dock, they issued a challenge. After the first quarter, the U.S. scorer quit-his team was so far behind he had lost count. The Russians also challenged the sailors at swimming. After one practice in the icy waters, the sport was dropped...
...Newport News the 27,000-ton carrier Ticonderoga was launched, towed off to the fitting-out dock, the ninth of the new Essex class to be launched since 1942. Ticonderoga was also one of the early 1944 guaranties by the world's most powerful navy that this year's building would outdo the spectacular record...
...most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...
...Willow Run bomber plant, the company docked the pay of a foreman for spending company time on union business. The foremen promptly struck. The Association estimated that 1,800, or 90%, went out; the Ford company estimate, 1,130. Although the 40,000 other workers stayed on the job, production nosedived, was cut in half in the manufacturing department. After one day, the strike ended when the company reportedly agreed not to dock the foreman...
...twelve, at Harrow, he fell 30 feet off a bridge, broke his shoulder instead of his head. At 21, in Cuba, he walked untouched through a rain of bullets. At 23, in India, he jumped from boat to dock, misjudged, smasl ed again his once-broken right shoulder (on this occasion he is reported to have uttered "most unChristian oaths...