Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this rank-and-file union member, your Essay on union labor [Sept. 17] missed the boat. Neither militancy nor affluence is the significant feature of union labor today. It is power and solidarity on a national scale as reflected in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership that counts. This power and solidarity is neither capitalistic nor capitalism. It is an effective counterbalance to the power of big business and big government. As long as it stays independent, it will serve the nation's interests...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with such passengers as Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat...
...Aerospace spent more than $200,000 on recruiting advertisements, paid some new employees as much as 100% more than they had been receiving in other jobs. Moving expenses were handsome: Dr. Getting was allowed $3,133.02 to truck his 40-ft. boat from Gloucester, Mass., to San Pedro, Calif., and one engineer was allowed $3,900 for moving 21 miles closer to his job from a house 80 miles from the plant...
...Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...
Then begins a long slide down to that part of Davy Jones's locker reserved for murkily motivated seagoing films. The arrival of some American prisoners, including the film's one girl, just weighs the boat down more. There is a lot of whispering and barking orders and dashing around the deck. But the trilling wire of suspense is missing. Zo, zometimes, iss Prando's peautiful aczent...