Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explanations crusted the situation like barnacles on a foul bottom. The past record of the port was as smelly as its long, cobblestoned Fish Pier. Port officials said that union-labor rules delayed shiploading and unloading operations. A.F. of L. longshoremen refused to work nights. Union rules required double-time wages ($3.60 an hour) for work during meal hours: breakfast, 5 a.m.-8 a.m.; dinner, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Because of a "lapse system" which allowed 20-minute rest periods, one operator figures that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever...
Hitler had not started the great push; the Russians-hoped that he was scraping the barrel's bottom to man it; and they were braced everywhere...
...sailing by the individual clubs is done in fourteen foot, V bottom dinghys which are manned by a two man crew. It is expected that the facilities of the club will be available to students in the Summer School...
...free as the all-year highways and alleys of the south Pacific. One foe, windblown by his dash, was catching his wind while his supplies came up. Another, fighting through the winter in the greatest battle of history, had dredged his high schools for new soldiers and scraped the bottom of factories and food stores for their supplies. In Easter week, while the United Nations sped over vast distances to meet them, they were about ready to strike. In the long run, the best job of logistics would...
Japanese bombers had been over her for hours. Within 24 hours the Japanese High Command must have known the Langley's whereabouts-on the bottom-but the U.S. public was kept in the dark for 34 days more...