Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times Joe offered to cut his original demands down to a 44-hour week, stuck for a 30% pay rise. He did not want a strike; he said so. But he shouted: "A ship's crew including captain, engineer and all the officers would still average less than 75? an hour. I pay a sitter more than that to watch my baby." The owners, who gave the N.M.U. a $45 a month raise last October on W.L.B. orders, were not moved...
...operate on a 44-hour-a-week basis only five men would have to be added to the crew, he said. (Shipping experts said ten.) As for costs, what about profits operators made during the war? Snarled Bridges: "What happened to $8 billion of U.S. funds which have not been properly accounted for by the War Shipping Administration and the Maritime Commission?" He was on uncertain ground there. A long and careful investigation is needed to prove or disprove that charge, an investigation which Vermont's Senator George Aiken and others in Congress have demanded...
...just mean appreciation") and working with woods and metals in shops. Bill Saltonstall, a handy man himself, is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and gangling, with the same ski-run jaw and long nose as his cousin, Senator Leverett Saltonstall. At Harvard, Bill won letters in football, crew and hockey, and still helps coach the Exeter hockey...
Crimson athletic squads will be active in four minor sports during the summer, Carroll F. Getchell, HAA official announced Saturday. Tennis, track and soccer aggregations will participate in informal competition with local and New England opposition while at least one Harvard crew will take to the water against whatever competing eights are available...
Hampered mainly by inexperience and limited endurance, the Varsity has struggled through a little better than indifferent season so far. It is, indeed, the first Bolles-coached Harvard crew that has failed to rank as a top Eastern rowing power...