Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directing his army of 5,000,000 workers. Less than a third of this great mass is actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their courageous fight against the imperialism of the Marshall Plan...
...Liverpool man," was all one pimply-faced steward could say about him. Others knew that Murphy had come down from Merseyside the day before, after having helped organize a wildcat strike whose aims were to tie up Liverpool and oust the rather tame leadership of the National Union of Seamen. '"E knows what we want," an oiler told a reporter...
...heroes of those awful hours in the plane were nine U.S. merchant seamen, homeward bound after delivering a tanker to an English buyer. They nonchalantly ate sardines and crackers, reassured the passengers and tied bibs made of torn sheets around the necks of retching men & women...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...
...badly. The raft was swamped; a motor launch which managed to get its people aboard was hit by a wave which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...