Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night trip out of Spokane, Wash., on the night we took it, was featured by a loudmouthed stewardess who kept sleep-inclined passengers awake with an all-night conversation with an unattached sailor...
...like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner...
...Puerto Rican sailor who had left Manhattan March 14 on an Army transport came down with smallpox in Bremerhaven. Manhattan officials promptly began a hunt for his Manhattan friends...
...unions tried to move in and he fought them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
...well in the end. Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers the consequences. It is years before she is reunited with her gentle, sailor sweetheart (John Mills...