Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British consular official with handlebar mustaches to tell them that the penalties for their decision might include having to pay their own way home, to pay for the transport of a new crew from Britain to Japan and to pay the cost of delaying the ship at Yokohama. Said Electrician D. G. MacNaughton: "We'd sooner take the penalties than help the Reds...
...eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly at me; the chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand; the chief electrician . . ." She learned to compute the cost of 15 minutes overtime in a flash; it could run into hundreds of dollars. But whenever she felt she had to have overtime drill, Rudi Bing, even though he was starting his first season with the biggest deficit in Met history ($430,502), usually...
...Roger Le Morvan, 26-year-old Parisian electrician, who had had former Record Holder Georges Michel as his trainer, had refreshed himself en route with glucose and champagne. Tiring in the last minutes, he could not match Abd el Rahim's sprint, climbed onto the beach just ten minutes after the Egyptian...
Southeast Asia is old Joseph Conrad country. There are still a few stories to be picked up out that way, and young (29) Novelist David Loughlin is just the man to try. His hero, DeCarlo, ship's electrician of the Nicaragua Victory, shows how much, and how little, times have changed...
Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...