Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson drew a long breath and Switchman Gunter took it up from there. "Suppose the dispatcher holds up a freight two or three hours before he gets a spot for it. The crew doesn't get paid the first 15 minutes he's fiddling around. And then there's this assigning crews to different types of work. Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours. We want eight hours pay for the second...
...there was no end to strikes. British Columbia's 37,000 still striking wood-workers were joined by 700 seamen of the Canada Steamship Lines. They struck when the City of Montreal sailed with a non-union crew. Slated for June 3 is a strike by some 4,000 other members of the A.F.L. Canadian Seamen's Union, who want an eight-hour day. (Present working day: 12 hours.) Ready to go out also were 6,000 A.F.L. textile workers in Quebec. Only the last-minute appointment of an inquiry commissioner averted a walkout by 10,000 C.I.O...
...gain the championship the Deacons took the hardball and crew titles and tied for first in tennis with Winthrop. Dunster garnered the basketball, swimming, and softball titles while Leverett won the squash and volley ball...
...inter-house crew races are being scheduled for the summer, but House residents will be encouraged to report to Weld Boathouse frequently to get in shape for the full scale intramural regatta which will be held in the spring. Under the direction of Bert Haines a year-round training policy similar to that used in the years before the war will be set up to develop efficiency in the house crews...
...range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew's "claudication," he mournfully recalls, prevented it from getting in any of the pictures...