Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able to throw a bowline") ; second month deck men, stewards and engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material at the end of their 90 days of general seamanship instruction, but they will receive certificates, ratings, the right...
...Communism actual or alleged was involved in violent, internal dissensions. As in the automobile industry, factionalism flared at the moment when Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipowners were beginning to accept the fact that a new union was on deck and had to be recognized. Unlike U. A. W., N. M. U.'s Communism, rooted down into the rank & file, was bitterly defended and attacked there...
...Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three...
...This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...
...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...