Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curran's Case. An ordinary seaman on the Atlantic-plying Liberty ship makes $82.50 a month base pay (for a 56-hour week) plus board & bunk. Until last weekend his war-risk bonus was at least 100% of his base pay. If the ship entered a danger area, he got an area bonus (about $25), and a port-attack bonus (about $10). Take-home pay of all its members, N.M.U. conservatively said, has averaged $50 weekly...
...Japs know Admiral William Frederick Halsey, to their sorrow. They know him as the Annapolis-trained Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly gambled on disaster in the Philip pines invasion last fall to send his fleet north and destroy most of the surviving carriers of the Japanese fleet...
...most distinctive thing about the carrier Ticonderoga was her skipper. Captain Dixie Kiefer* is a short, barrel-chested seaman and airman who ran his ship by procedures few men could or would use, and made them work...
...Fishing Trip. At this point 19-year-old Seaman Albert Kovacs, with his brother James, appeared on the dangerously crowded stage. Al, a veteran of the Pacific, now stationed at Portsmouth, had been fishing. He had had a date with Faith Coombs, an 18-year-old high-school girl who looked after the Milton children. He was late; Faith was not there. Except for the children upstairs, asleep, the Milton house was empty. Al raided the icebox for some beer and he and James sat down to drink...
While she was held in $50,000 bail on a charge of manslaughter, a mourning family buried Seaman Kovacs. Charlie Milton disappeared from public view, and at week's end had not been heard from. Neither had George Stevens, who was still overseas, although Imogene had sent him a peremptory cable: "Come home at once." George's father was sure he would if he could: "George will stick with her. When a man's stuck he's stuck...