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Until the early part of November, Fulton reports, Nazi air-attacks had not seriously impaired the operation of English airplane manufacturing plants, or the dock facilities of southern British ports...
...bombers from Greek bases soon followed up the Fleet Air Arm's work with an attack upon the naval dry-docks of Taranto. For it was not in Sir Andrew's mind to let the Italians repair their ships, in dock or by caisson work, as the Russians did after the Japanese opened the war on them with torpedoes in a snowstorm in 1904. The R. A. F. blasted the repair dock, and might be counted on, from its new bases in Crete, to complicate any and all salvage...
...bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down to the station or dock, hoping that someone may have to drop out at the last minute...
Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...
...that are really meant to be funny is Segar's Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye. Thimble Theatre's first cast consisted of gawky Heroine Olive Oyl and her dimwit brother Castor. They straggled along for ten years before Castor Oyl one day in 1929 encountered Popeye on a dock. Cried Castor: "Hey, are you a sailor?" Said Popeye dourly: "Ja think I was a cowboy...