Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike had started over money. Fish prices had skyrocketed and so had profits. Some boat owners, by union reckoning, were making as much as $300 on a shareholding of $500. But deep-sea crewmen, who got only about $1,000,000 (some $2,000 apiece) of a 1946 gross running between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, wanted a fatter slice...
...Products, Ltd., the biggest fleet owner, readily agreed to the idea of the 60-40 lay, which would boost a crewman's average earnings by roughly $400 a year. But Lunenburg balked at paying certain small operating expenses (e.g. the maintenance of a medicine chest on each boat), and insisted that these come out of gross earnings before...
Kantor has had time for half a dozen such phases; he was born half a century ago, in Minsk, Russia. Young Kantor imagined the U.S. as a land of opportunity for his art, but when the hopeful 13-year-old stepped off the boat, Manhattan's teeming garment district swiftly swallowed him up. It took him seven years to get as far as art school. Since then he has gone all the way from pure abstractionism to meticulous realism (and most of the way back again). His theory: "Each painting should stand by itself, not only as to subject...
...this term, the Varsity "A" squash team yesterday afternoon lost a Massachusetts Squash Racquets League match in dropping a close 3 to 2 decision to the Newton Squash and Tennis Club. The defeat snapped a Crimson four week winning skein marred only by a loss to the Union Boat Club just before the holidays, but the racquetmen remain undefeated in Intercollegiate competition...
...Inventor. Hammond Jr. began inventing before he got used to long pants. At 16, he produced a gasoline engine (which flopped). Most of his inventions were concerned with radio and its neighboring fields. In 1912, when he was 24, he steered a boat by radio control from Boston to Gloucester. He collaborated with Alexander Graham Bell on long distance telephony, pioneered in vacuum tubes, frequency modulation, television. In 1933, the U.S. Government paid $750,000 for Hammond patents...