Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashore, the death toll was small (5), but at least 62 men lost their lives as shipping wallowed in one of the worst storms of the century. At Sker Point, in Wales, hundreds watched helplessly as the 40 crewmen of a tanker, breaking up on the rocks 300 yards offshore, were swept to death by huge waves. A lifeboat, which set out to the stricken ship, was swamped and its crew of eight men lost...
Minutes later all that was left of the plane, its 22 passengers and crewmen and all their dreams and hopes was a charred and twisted mass of corpses and wreckage...
...Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...
...strike had started over money. Fish prices had skyrocketed and so had profits. Some boat owners, by union reckoning, were making as much as $300 on a shareholding of $500. But deep-sea crewmen, who got only about $1,000,000 (some $2,000 apiece) of a 1946 gross running between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, wanted a fatter slice...
...them had joined the fingerling Fishermen's and Fish Handlers' Union. Three months ago the union demanded that the "lay" (split) of each voyage's net profit (i.e. net after deductions for various operating costs) be changed from the traditional 50-50 lay to 60% for crewmen, 40 for owners. Also demanded: a redivision of operating costs...