Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after the completion of his medical training, he was drawn to active interests in, and work for, seamen. It came naturally to him, for his forbears had been "fighting men from Cornwall and Devon", who had "followed the old admirals, from Drake and Howard and Releigh to Rodney, Boscawen and Nelson." The physical danger of the seamen's trade, and their splendid courage, fascinated him. Their helplessness before the "vampires" who prayed on them, was a challenge ringing in his ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along...
...training of a body on young men for the national defence, who are not military by profession but can be called in an emergency, is highly desirable from every paint of view; and the war proved, rather unexpectedly, that college graduates, not seamen by occupation, could rapidly become highly useful junior officers...
During the flight training period the men will be enrolled as second class seamen, and are paid an average stipulation of about $90 a month. The enrollment last year numbered over 200. Twenty men were selected for the practical part of the course. This year, due to a governmental ruling which limits the entire number to 22, only seven men from this district will be taken from the Ground School...
...hell of Great Lakes seamen is the St. Mary's River over whose cascades 75,000 cubic feet of icy cold Lake Superior water somersault every second. At the city of Sault Sainte Marie, this "Soo" River drops 20 feet in three-quarters of a mile. But both the Canadian and the U. S. Governments have built locks at the cascades, that can lift two to four lake steamers to the Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia...
...Atlantic seaboard, Philip Albright Small Franklin, for president. Mr. Franklin has had many things to fight-foreign competition, inertia of U. S. shippers, a heavy $36,000,000 bonded indebtedness, most of all legislative handicaps. No other government regulates wages, conditions of work and contracts of its seamen as does the U. S., and to that extent at least foreign shipping concerns have had an advantage over U. S. competitors. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine has never paid a common dividend; its accumulated, unpaid preferred dividends are 64% of their face value; its yearly deficit has been, since...