Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restraints, such as a capital gains tax, to employers. Labor unrest mounted so sharply that strikes cost British industry more man-hours (more than 4,000,000) in the first quarter of 1962 than in all of 1961 or 1960. Biggest test for the government came last month, when dock workers at Britain's 25 ports demanded a considerably fattened pay package. The dockers are members of the country's biggest and most militant union, the Transport and General Workers, whose battling, left-wing General Secretary Frank Cousins proclaimed that the Pay Pause was a case of "capitalism...
...worked his way to control of all of Chatô's companies in Sāo Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states. A few years later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named Joāo Calmon, who happened to be standing on the dock when the press lord arrived. After a couple of hours afloat, Chatô told the youth to report for work next day at his daily O Jornal...
...Ford, Crimson captain, had two a second, and a third in four races. Farrow, Ford's crew in the opening races, fell from the dock before the start of the final "A" race, banging against several boats and dislocating his shoulder. He will be out of action for three weeks...
Police with submachine guns were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
...really, one must say that this kind of photography usually fails to show anything significant in the photographer's selection of scene and lighting. I can't find much that is exciting or worth-while about a picture of a steamer (out of focus) tied up at a dock; but I do find a great deal in longshoremen struggling with their tasks...