Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York dock strike has prevented valuable machinery from reaching desperate factories, kept exotic fruit from dying children, and tied up the nation's busiest port. It has also snarled up the arrival of over 50 textbooks for Physics 181 (Elementary Thermodynamics...
...thieves who infest the waterfront as work gang leaders and hiring bosses, forcing longshoremen to pay for the right to work. For years this situation has been tolerated by Union President Ryan, by the New York Shipping Association, which represents the management of 161 steamship lines and other port industries, and by the New York police. Now the strikers, with no definite aims in view, were expressing a deep-seated protest...
Costliest Ever. It became the costliest strike in the port's history. By the end of last week, estimates of its toll included $1 billion worth of cargo tied up, financial losses of $40 million, 90% of the 35,000 New York longshoremen off the job, 135 piers idle and 120 ships tied...
...cold business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...
...After seizing command of their vessel, twelve members of the Polish navy reached this port and political sanctuary...