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These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time...
...plunged into controversy. But he also demonstrated that he could end fights as well as start them. He often mediated labor conflicts on the West Coast. Appointed the Pacific Coast arbitrator of maritime disputes in 1938, he became the tough man on the docks, forcing even the doughty longshoremen to back down...
...Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will go up 25%, to $ 1.25 a copy. The annual "membership fee" charged to holders of American Express credit cards will rise 33%, to $20. On the blue-collar front, 12,000 West Coast members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union saluted the end of controls by walking off their jobs for one day. Two years ago, the COLC knocked 300 an hour off the wage increase that the union had negotiated. The dockers now are bargaining to get that 300 and more...
...America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union has threatened to boycott such Latin American imports as bananas, sugar and coffee if the tax is imposed...
...steel manufacturers and other industrialists. Such a move would serve notice to Ian Smith and his white regime that one less government wishes to condone Rhodesia's racial practices. The demonstration last week was an effort to show solidarity with the 14 million Zimbawbe people. Insofar as the longshoremen did unload the Rhodesian asbestos, the action was unsuccessful. But as one organizer pointed out, the protest had a broader purpose: to show support for a people who live in a state of virtual servitude. Eddison told the demonstrators: "It is very good to see some people who don't want...