Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry cranes, and huge container vans with detachable wheels and chassis. Union men feared that the new equipment would also replace longshoremen, demanded a contract clause which would give the I.L.A. the right of approval on all new equipment...
Changing pace, the Sahara in Las Vegas was offering a "family show" (no nudes; Dan Dailey), and the first family of onetime Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio turned up for the occasion. Look-alike...
...sake. How am I supposed to do that?" Clipper avoided the staring eyes of fellow passengers and lollers on the shore...
...Clipper," coaxed Jessie while squeezing water from the streamer and getting her land legs...
...Where?" asked Clipper. But Jessie was already running ahead towards the balloon...