Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American merchant ship was on the high seas this week carrying the highest-paid able seaman in U.S. maritime history: tough, balding Joe Curran, $5,200-a-year president of the C.I.O. National Maritime Union...
Last week, by a 2-to-1 majority, Georgia citizens voted the amendment into their Constitution, thus giving the vote not only to Seaman Cranford but to 85,000 girls, who cannot serve their country in the armed forces until they...
When a drowning seaman is brought out of the sea, he is immediately bound (either supine or prone) on a stretcher by gentle wrist and ankle bandages. The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning...
...Look, Professor Dupesceau," we said with our customary and fearless method of leaping directly into conversation. "Why's it that you, toast of cultured society, cream of intellectual circles, student and scholar divine, have accepted the menial and lowly rank of Seaman 14th Class? Is it your love of democracy, your desire to investigate life--even below the masses--that prompts you to such action...
Then the Professor told of his meteoric rise from Admiral through Commander to Lieutenant (jg); the hard jump from Ensign to C.P.O. and finally to the post he now holds, Seaman 14th Class...