Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Coast shipping strike in 1936 I figured some of the dock workers would have to work almost 40 years to be where they were when they went out on strike...
Another instance cited is that of a message sent from Brest in the summer of 1937 which read like this: "The erniser Colbert is in dock No. 6 Amnament 6425, forward guns carefully phoioed, agents incited workmen's strike on Monday 16th...
...assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock on a small lake where he catches pan fish and hunts ducks. More important, the election meant that henceforth the Guild would be run by the kind of man whom most newspapermen regard as typical of the hardworking best in their profession...
...little point in having boat drills during that voyage across the Channel. "This ship is cradling eight-five thousand gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped...
...quite a show. Last week, in a vast, high-ceilinged courtroom in Brooklyn, the scene was thrown on the screen for the jury. Duquesne was there, in the prisoners' dock; he looked at himself on the screen with interest. His gestures, especially the one with the imaginary rifle, brought a snicker from the audience. The other 15 defendants (17 of the 33 had pleaded guilty) had no such stellar roles as the trial rolled on and the case, unlike the movie, slowly proceeded. The U.S. had not yet learned from the trial how effective Nazi espionage...