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...have determined that the $100 minimum wage, even with the large crews which we carry, leaves us a substantial profit, and all talk that this is a blow to the American merchant marine or other shippers is bunk. The big shipping companies do not pay decent wages merely because they do not have to. They are interested in keeping their men away from conditions in which they might enjoy the advantages that good wages bring. They want their sailors to remain in ignorance of the better things in life in order that there will be no demand for better wages...
...prepared to say that his experiment is all 'bunk.' All I can say is that what I saw of it was. And I put in a couple of days in his shop...
...outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than 30 or 40% of the young men will be able to pass the physical tests. Colonel Mitchell goes so far as to call the scheme "bunk...
...Posing as a "Loafer," he pondered the causes and meanings behind university structures. "The finished shell," said he, "represents the ideals of the college, the type of its education, . . . imagination, independence, . . . enslavement to shadows, to predetermined notions, petrifactions, parchment, self-adulation, pretense and the higher bunk...
...within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will be a dancing casino, but not a roulette establishment...