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The Bessie Ellen at Brest, France. A West Country ketch or a Tamar ketch is a two-masted sailing ketch, designed for carrying cargo from the South West England, predominantly from the ports of the River Tamar, to ports on the Celtic Sea, such as Cork. [1] [2] The West Country ketch is a specialist type of ketch designed for the waters of the ...
The website expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. On August 1, 2004, Craigslist began charging $25 to post job openings on the New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section called "Gigs" was added, where low-cost and unpaid jobs can be posted for free.
A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [ 1 ] As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the 1960s.
On November 27, 2012, about 70 clerical workers at the Port of Los Angeles, [10] all OCU members, went on strike. [5] The union members worked for APM Terminals, a company that operates Pier 400 at the port. [5] Longshoremen at the pier, also members of the ILWU, honored the strike action and as a result, the port was shut down. [5]
Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955), educator, co-founder of University of California, Los Angeles [120] Harvey Seeley Mudd (1888–1955), engineer and educator; William Mulholland (1855–1935), engineered the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Mulholland Dam, St. Francis Dam and other dams, Panama Canal consultant, namesake of Mulholland Drive [121] [81]
Marlene Dietrich (left) and Rita Hayworth serve food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen in 1942.. The Hollywood Canteen operated at 1451 North Cahuenga Boulevard in the Los Angeles, California, [1] [2] neighborhood of Hollywood between October 3, 1942 and November 22, 1945, as a club offering food, dancing, and entertainment for enlisted men and women, [1] [3] who were usually on their way ...
KOST (103.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, United States.Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music in early November and ending a few days after Christmas Day (or after Christmas Day, if the holiday falls on a Sunday).
Ellen K. (born September 19, 1962) [ 1 ] is an American radio personality in the Los Angeles , California market and a television host. She is the host of the Ellen K Radio Show on KOST 103.5 FM , and the nationally-syndicated weekend program Ellen K Weekend Show on iHeartMedia AC-formatted stations like Lite FM in New York and in Chicago.