Word: midwatch
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Ryan to Lyon. The signal for peace on the East Coast came one morning last week during a midwatch hour in a New York hotel. Cyrus S. Ching, federal mediator and peacemaker, had put the shipowners in one room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
Trafalgar Traveler (June). In Chatham, England, midwatch sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson...
Sure, early morning calisthenics wore tough--but so is the midwatch at sea. Six hours of class each day may have seemed hard to bear at times but it will be a cold day at at the equator when we won't work twelve hours at the new station. It's true we had to stand in line and carry trays at Cowle--but at least there was no danger of the soup bowl bouncing off the table into our laps once we out it down...
...observers tells one-half the truth. These fish glide as well as fly. . . . The following are my personal observations, made under nearly "laboratory" conditions. On Aug. 31 at Santa Barbara Island, the U.S.S. West Virginia, was at anchor in the lee of the island during the night. On the midwatch I had rigged a 200-watt cargo lamp, equipped with a reflector, at the side to direct boats to the quarter-deck sea-ladder. The light was 20 ft. above the water line, and pointed directly downward. At least two dozen flying fish of lengths varying from...
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