Word: seamans
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Congo Diary traces the first autobiographical flutters of that sentence from Heart of Darkness. After more than ten years as a seaman and officer in the British merchant navy, Conrad signed a three-year contract with a Belgian company to serve on river steamboats that plied the Congo River. "Like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin" was his description of boats like...
...rich clients, investment firms abroad are now specializing in American property. Some are one-or two-man operations, and several are as large as West Germany's Lehndorff Management Ltd., which has invested some $300 million in U.S. properties for 1,800 investors. Reports TIME Bonn Correspondent Barrett Seaman: "An American kind of optimism is everywhere. In Frankfurt, a consortium of banks offered $60 million worth of over-the-counter investment shares in a Houston office building for about $10,000 each, and in three weeks sold out the offering to customers, many of them walking...
...acre naval complex at San Diego, home to 89,200 Navy men and women (17% of the entire Navy). The grounds of the naval training center now look more like a college campus than a military base, with many sailors sporting blue denims. The hefty pay raises (a seaman E-3 makes $460 monthly in base pay, compared with $99 in 1958) mean that most sailors can afford apartments in San Diego. Petty Officer Third Class Anthony Moseby, 23, for one, can. This means that each weekday morning he is up near dawn in his beach apartment, dons his jeans...
DIED. Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, 91, indomitable British seaman who distinguished himself in two world wars; in Wateringbury, England. Moore won the Distinguished Service Order as a young navigator for destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...
...senior vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank, complained that "there was nothing to help solve our rate of inflation." Joseph Lanterman, chairman of Chicago's Amsted Industries, manufacturers of railroad and industrial components, asserted that "Carter has not removed any of the uncertainties that plague the economy." Irving Seaman, chairman of Sears Bank and Trust in Chicago, called Carter's address "a bland, nothing speech. I'm even more apprehensive about the economy than before...