Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Requirements of the LaFollette Seamen's Act (regarding crews, quarters, etc.) and higher labor costs make ship-operation under the U. S. flag much more expensive than under a foreign flag...
British workmen engaged off Scapa Flow in breaking up a scuttled German warship came across the bodies of five German officers and seamen, who were thought not to have been warned when the German crews sank their ships on June...
...number of such seamen protem,' has increased since the appearance of federally operated boats," he declared. "Thus, of the thousands who feel the wanderlust when school is closing, hundreds possess fathers who know somebody who knows somebody else who has a friend on the Government payroll.. So they gain access with their brand-new oilskins and their letters of introduction to ship offices on Broadway, New York, while the old-timers wait outside...
...college men were good seamen it would be different. But only a small number stand on their own merits. I knew a Yale man who, on galley duty, used to throw the dirty dishes through the porthole, to get time to write to his girl. And another who sent the crew into hysteries when he tried to scrub deck with gloves...
Stevenson himself said that he was forced to keep low company because he could not afford better. "I was the companion of seamen, chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...