Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a while the automatic pilot went out of commission and the passengers stood watches at the wheel to spell the crew. The drinking water turned brown. Those who could eat chewed miserably on bologna sandwiches and cheese crackers, or starchy concoctions slapped up by lola Nicholas, a fry-cook who had never been aboard a ship before...
Last week, the Coast Guard fined Charlie Otterman $1,000 for operating without a certificate of inspection and failing to carry a properly qualified crew. The 18 angry romance-seekers were promised their money back. Mused Passenger Frank C. Crans, 65, a retired Sears, Roebuck executive: "I was told the trip would be unusual...
Aboard the Amethyst, other wounded and the dead still lay on the deck. The British destroyer Consort had started from Nanking at the Amethyst's first S O S, to succor the stranded crew. The Consort was flying seven large British flags. She, too, was fired upon by the Reds, and retaliated with her 4½-inch guns. "It was bloody awful," said a Cockney survivor from the Consort. "But we gave it back to 'em. I saw one of their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went...
...Accident. Colonial Airlines, whose slogan is "Safety is no accident," last week completed its 19th year without a serious accident, the longest accident-free period for any U.S. airline. Colonial has flown 250,545,622 passenger miles without death or serious injury to any passenger or crew member...
...fact if the morale of the second crew stays at its persent high level, there will be no room for complacency on the part of any who row in the first boat...