Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year (from the union treasury). The result surpasses the average labor officials' wildest dreams. The philosophy of the local Teamster officer, says a seasoned observer, goes something like this: "If I can get some members for a local union, then I can get a charter, then I can get some more members, then I can collect dues, then I can have a union treasury, then I can buy a Cadillac, then I can take trips to Florida to confer with other union leaders." Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing...
...last two years of Hitler's war. In the cold drizzle of a wintry Sunday morning last week, some 1,500 young Germans journeyed out to Belsen to lay flowers on her grave. A Hamburg jazz club emptied its cash box so that 80 members could charter a bus; another 300 young people pedaled on bikes to the camp. "We older people," said a government official, "have had the Jews on our consciences ever since the war, and now our children are inheriting that guilt...
...Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many more, then...
...MOTHBALLING of wartime ships for private charter is hitting a reef. U.S. cargo lines badly need vessels but cannot pay for reconditioning because costs recently doubled to about $240,000 a ship...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some esoteric military order but merely for Dirty Old Man. It is all a long way from W.M.B.-the White Man's Burden of the great, dead Kipling days...