Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City a longshoremen's contract got signed in time, but three locals refused to abide by it and started a wildcat strike. That touched off a sympathy move aboard the big liner America, queen of the U.S. merchant fleet, and off walked its National Maritime Union crew. Results: no America sailing to Europe; badly frayed tempers for Film Actress Carole Landis and 937 other passengers; loss of about $500,000 in fares and wages...
Because of such problems, the Express also decided that Canyon and his jive talking crew had to go; Steve & Co. vanished from the Express without so much as a waggle of their wings. Steve's passing gave a clue to the differences between U.S. and British comic-strip tastes. Blondie is a fixture, in the Daily Graphic. Said an editor: "It never gets beyond the trifling happenings that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood...
...ends of rope hanging where no end of rope should hang. "Bosun, what's that rope end dangling there for?" Illingworth would say. "Sorry, sir," the boatswain would answer, sending Seaman Brown to cut the end off. One morning, from a porthole, Illingworth spied two members of the crew, arms loaded with rope ends, tying them here & there to prepare a sort of treasure hunt for him. When he appeared for inspection, he spotted the first. The boatswain solemnly dispatched Brown to cut it. "Why Brown?" barked Illingworth. "Send the man who tied it there while I was watching...
...thatch of white hair over deep-set eyes. He looks (and is) the embodiment of that stout British character which a gloomy statesman in the House of Commons corridor recently said was Britain's one hope. As Captain Illingworth's deputy, he runs the crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously did not know their way about. But, considering that it was a maiden voyage in a sense, surprisingly few hitches developed and the officers were delighted. The crew morale was skyhigh...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...