Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal for Britons to show some of the "Dunkirk spirit" is "so much piffle" to Electroplater Harold Lane. Southampton Dock Leader Trevor Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation. "Every time there is a real crisis or an artificial crisis," he says, "the worker rather than the employer classes have to suffer." Shop Steward Tony Bradley, in Morris Motor...
...impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types at elegant after-parties wolf their food the same way Miguelin's boorish father did on the farm...
...Tinkerbelle's top speed as "seven knots an hour" [July 8]? I presume he would also go "up aloft," "down below deck," or "bear right to starboard." Tell the knothead that seven knots equals seven nautical miles an hour, and keep him away from the end of the dock...
...days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother to get out of their cabs. After the style of U.S. aircraft carriers, Henrion keeps track...
...Liverpool, dock-wallopers practice a custom called "welting"; half of an eight-man crew works while the other half loafs, and at intervals they change roles. Welting was adopted in World War II for quite another purpose-to enable dockers to survive backbreaking twelve-hour days. It is recognized as such a good thing that it is practiced in other British industries...